Volume 2011 JRAHS Trial (3 Viewers)

[asianese]

Done part i...I'm unsure about part ii and iii). Just started volumes...

Can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[lolcakes52]

Okay, it does take a while to get your head around it but its easy enough once you do some doodling. I found the y value of the elipse for any value of x, ((4-x^2)^(1/2))/2 and the value of x for the corresponding point on the parabola mentioned in part i. Simply put, I found the corresponding focal lengths for each parabola and let them be equal so I could find the value of x in terms of a.
This yielded 2a=((4-x^2)^(1/2))/2
which became a=((4-x^2)^(1/2))/4.
I then subbed this into the equation in part i and gained the correct expression for A(x).
Part ii is quite easy after this.

∂V=∂x*A(x)
V is the integral of A(x)dx from 2 to -2

 

[AbsoluteValue]

It says the focal chord is perpendicular to the axis, therefore you are looking at the area between y=0 and y=a. So just integrate x=(4ay)^0.5 in that limit, I think you should get the area.

 

[AbsoluteValue]

I get 4a^2/3 which is half the required, something went wrong.

 

[asianese]

THANKS!! I knew I had to use the latus rectum length somewhere (4a)...Thanks

From the same paper...can't get my head around this one!

 

[AbsoluteValue]

You are integrating this: 2\pi \int_{0}^{\frac{\pi }{2}} x(1-sinx)dx
Type this in http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php to make it easier to read. For some reason I can't post latex.

 

[asianese]

Well I did it via the rectangle from -2a to 2a minus the the integral

 

[AbsoluteValue]

How can you copy/past latex? It doesn't work for me.

 

[asianese]

You have to type [ tex ] [ /tex ] around what you want latexed.

And yes, I have that expression, but how do I get it to ?

 

[AbsoluteValue]

[ tex ] 2\pi \int_{0}^{\frac{\pi }{2}} x(1-sinx)dx [ /tex ]
Doesn't work

 

[rolpsy]

THANKS!! I knew I had to use the latus rectum length somewhere (4a)...Thanks

From the same paper...can't get my head around this one!

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well you know that



so you can say



use the slicing method and you should get it

edit:

[ tex ] 2\pi \int_{0}^{\frac{\pi }{2}} x(1-sinx)dx [ /tex ]
Doesn't work

you have to put
[noparse][/noparse] (no spaces)

 

[Siddy123]

iv seen that question before in a really old sydney tech paper.
i think 80's

 

[asianese]

Absolute, without the spaces! (in the tex tags)

 

[AbsoluteValue]

WORKS !!!

 

[AbsoluteValue]

WORKS !!!

How do you change this to

 

[asianese]

well you know that



so you can say



use the slicing method and you should get it

edit:

you have to put
[noparse][/noparse] (no spaces)

HO. LY. WHAT THE HELL MIND BLOWN O__________________________________O. Did not know you could do that. It's so simple. Yet amazing. Whoa. Thankyou. I will put that in the books.

 

[AbsoluteValue]

HO. LY. WHAT THE HELL MIND BLOWN O__________________________________O. Did not know you could do that. It's so simple. Yet amazing. Whoa. Thankyou. I will put that in the books.

whaaat, they never teach this technique to us

 

[asianese]

Yeah IKR...Wuttt

So slices, just normal discs, holy...

 

[AbsoluteValue]

Yeah IKR...Wuttt

So slices, just normal discs, holy...

No need to ever use cylindrical shells like this

 

[rolpsy]

HO. LY. WHAT THE HELL MIND BLOWN O__________________________________O. Did not know you could do that. It's so simple. Yet amazing. Whoa. Thankyou. I will put that in the books.

Oh lol

Terry Lee's book makes quite a fuss about it

anyway the solutions are here