Shell integration

Shell integration

Shell integration (the shell method in integral calculus) is a means of calculating the volume of a solid of revolution, when integrating along an axis perpendicular to the axis of revolution.

It makes use of the so-called "representative cylinder". Intuitively speaking, part of the graph of a function is rotated around an axis, and is modelled by an infinite number of hollow pipes, all infinitely thin.

The idea is that a "representative rectangle" (used in the most basic forms of integration – such as ∫ "x" "dx") can be rotated about the axis of revolution; thus generating a hollow cylinder. Integration, as an accumulative process, can then calculate the "integrated" volume of a "family" of shells (a shell being the outer edge of a hollow cylinder) – as volume is the antiderivative of area, if one can calculate the lateral surface area of a shell, one can then calculate its volume.

The necessary equation, for calculating such a volume, "V", is slightly different depending on which axis is serving as the axis of revolution. These equations note that the lateral surface area of a shell equals: 2 pi (π) multiplied by the cylinder's average radius, "p"("y"), multiplied by the length of the cylinder, "h"("y"). One can calculate the volume of a representative shell by: 2π * "p"("y") * "h"("y") * "dy", where "dy" is the thickness of the shell – that being some number approaching zero.

Shell integration can be considered a special case of evaluating a double integral in polar coordinates.

Calculation

Mathematically, this method is represented by::2pi int_{a}^{b} p(y) h(y),dy

if the rotation is around the x-axis (horizontal axis of revolution), or

:2pi int_{a}^{b} p(x) h(x),dx

if the rotation is around the y-axis (vertical axis of revolution).

So here the function "p"(x) is the distance from the axis and "h"(x) is the length of the shell, generally the function being rotated. The values for "a" and "b" are the limits of integration, the starting and stopping points of the rotated shape (note the limits are units of the Axis of Revolution).

ee also

*Solid of revolution
*Disk integration
*Radius


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