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Finding Volumes of Revolution

Since this involves straightforward integration, one may simply issue commands such as:

  > f:= x-> sqrt(x) +1;

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  > vol:= int(Pi*f(x)^2, x=0..9);

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  > evalf(vol);

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Sean O Anderson
Tue Dec 3 12:06:23 EST 1996