Wednesday, May 15, 2019

integration - Where am I going Wrong in this Polar Coordinate Conversion?



Solve the following double integral by converting to polar coordinates first:



204x20(x2+y2)3/2dydx



My attempt at a solution:




Rdydx(Cartesian) = Rrdrdθ(Polar)



x=rcosθ,y=rsinθ



y=4x2 ---> x2+y2=42r=0



Because we can only use the top half of the circle, πθ=0



Therefore, the overall integral I arrive at is:




π020(r2)3/2rdrdθ,



Which simplifies down to:



π020r4drdθ



Solving this, I get an answer of 32π5. The answer in the book, however, is 16π5. What am I doing wrong? Where am I ending up with an answer twice as big as it should be?


Answer



You should only be using the upper left quadrant of the circle. x ranges from 0 to 2; to get the full top half, it would need to range from 2 to 2. I find it usually helps to draw the full region before starting any coordinate transforms.


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