Finding Volumes of Revolution

By Gerardo Gonzalez

Procedure
Step1:Locate a symmetric, but irregular shaped object. I chose this one: Picture of wine glass needs to be uploaded.

Step2:Using a Caliper to find approximate measurements

I first measured the height of the irregular object. The height was 158.75mm I then got a piece of graph paper and drew a line that was 158.75mm in length. I then divided 158.75mm into 25 measurements that were 6.35mm apart from each other. Interval:6.35 Total measurements:25 My x values are the length of the wine laying down sideways on the x axis. For the Y values I used a caliper, measured and divided the width of the wine glass by 2 to get half the height of the whine glass. I divide it by two so I can use the disk method to revolve it around the x axis. This is one way we can figure out the approximate volume of the wine glass. There is one slight problem. The disk method uses a function to find the volume of revolution. I dont have a function, but I do know that I can incorporate the disk method into the trapezoid rule. By doing this I will then be able to find the approximate volume of the wine glass.

Step3:Applying the Trapezoid Rule with the Disk method incorporated

I applied the Trapezoid rule with the disk method incorporated to find the volume of the solid. Side note: When you use the disk method with the Trapezoid rule you are able to revolve your y values around the x axis giving you a 3 dimensional area. In the following slide I show the trapezoid rule. I then show how to incorporate the disk method into the trapezoid formula. This then results in calculating the approximate volume of the wine glass.

Finding the wine glass volume by using Trapezoid Rule with Disk method incorporated
Trapezoid Rule:

() =

((0 ) + 2(2 ) + 2(3 ). . . +2(23 ) + 2(24 ) + (25 2

I took the 1/2 and multiplied it across the y values. By doing this I cancel out twos inside the parantheses.

() =

1 1 ( (0 ) + (2 ) + (3 ). . . +(23 ) + (24 ) + (25 2 2

I am going to incorporate the diskmethod into the trapezoid rule. DiskMethod:

2 =

Incorporated into the trapezoid rule

ba 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 T ( n) ( )[ f ( x0 ) f ( x2 ) f ( x3 ) ... f ( x23 ) f ( x24 ) f ( x25 )2 ] n 2 2

Actual Calculations
b=158.75mm a=0 n=25
b a 158.75mm 0 x= 6.35mm n 25
( 6.35)[1 2 48.475 ^2 + 28.55^2 + 20.51^2 + 5.38^2 + 5.105^2 + 5.29^2 + 5.435^2 + 5.585^2 + 5.755^2 + 5.985^2 + 6.22^2 + 6.775^2 Side note: The + 11.55^2 + 16.83^2 + 18.85^2 + 23.775^2 + 24.985^2 + 26.61^2 has already + 28.4^2 + 35.05^2 + 40.77^2 + 49.77^2 + 49.545^2 + 51.42^2 been + 54.995^2 + 56.685^2 + 1 2 58.18 ^2 distributed inside the Approximate volume of wine glass:490361.1756mm3 brackets.

Step 4: Use Mathematica to plot a 3D model of the wine glass.