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It helps to understand the integral - more specifically, the definite integral - as "adding together many pieces". If you cut up a volume into thin slices... Well, you can cut it up in many different ways, but one way this is commonly done is using parallel slices. In this case, for each of the parallel slices you basically need to figure out its area (times the thickness, expressed by "dx" or some other variable with a "d" in front) - and then you need to add all the slices up, i.e., integrate.

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How do you calculate the surface area or volume of each shape?

we can use integration.- multiple integration.


Applications of integral calculus?

Integration can be used to calculate the area under a curve and the volume of solids of revolution.


How do you find volume of an irregular solid figure?

By integration - you divide the figure into many thin slices, and calculate the volume of each slice individually. The volume of each slice, again, can be calculated by integration: divide it into thin rectangles, and calculate the area of each rectangle. If you have a irregular solid figure just immerse it in water and measure the displacement. a la Archimedes


How do you make a model to show how to use integration to get the volume of a curve rotated around an axis?

To model the volume of a solid formed by rotating a curve around an axis using integration, you typically employ the disk or washer method. First, define the function that represents the curve and the limits of integration along the axis. Then, for the disk method, integrate the area of circular cross-sections (π times the radius squared) taken perpendicular to the axis of rotation. For the washer method, subtract the area of the inner radius from the outer radius, integrating over the same limits to find the total volume.


What method find regular solid volume?

Geometry, or algebra (integration).


How could you work out the volume of an irregular shaped object?

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Show by integration the formula of volume of a sphere?

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How can you obtain a cell's ratio of surface area to volume?

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What is the use of integration in your practical life?

Google " volume of revolution " problems and see how integration makes these problems that would not be easily solved by other methods easier.


What is ratio of surface area to volume?

surface area/ volume. wider range of surface area to volume is better for cells.


Who discovered the volume of cylinder?

Archimedes. Archimedes published a work named "On the Sphere and Cylinder", where he proved the formulas for the surface area and volume of both spheres and cylinders. This is actually quite impressive, considering that he lacked the concept of calculus or limits to aid him. In calculus, the proof for the volume of a cylinder because trivial through integration by slicing.


How do you calculate the surface-area-to-volume-ratio?

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