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Before you may have memorized some of these formulas. Now you can derive them! The power of calculus....
In every case for what follows, we begin with what I consider the most important formula for integral calculus (which in this case we write using the letter $V$, for volume):
\[ V=\int{dV} \]
Of course this is also how you would compute integrals of wine ("Vino", adding up little chunks of vino), or even Vemicelli: \[ Vino=\int{dVino} \] or \[ Vermicelli=\int{dVermicelli} \]
To calculate any quantity $V$, we simply divide it up into infinitesimal quantities $dV$, and add an infinity of them up.
Now to calculate volumes we'd better know the extent of the object of interest, so we'll march along the $x$-axis from $a$ to $b$, stop at $x$, and add in the little $dV$ that is found there. So in each case what we need to do is find $dV$ (which, by the way, is a function of some other variable, usually -- in the following it's a function of $x$):
\[ V=\int_{a}^{b}dV(x) \]
Often (certainly in this section) our next step is to write $dV(x)$ as an area, which is a function of $x$, times dx:
\[ V=\int_{a}^{b}dV(x)=\int_{a}^{b}A(x)dx \]
This is the "sliced bread" problem: the volume of a loaf of bread is the sum of the volumes of the slices, which have thickness $\Delta x$ (they're not infinitesimal, because they wouldn't be very filling if they were), and cross sectional area $A(x)$, which varies along the loaf -- like sometimes there's that skinny little heel at the end, with a small $\Delta x$ and a little cross-sectional area).
So our problem becomes to find $A(x)$ -- what are the cross-sectional areas?
Let's take a look at some examples:
\[ dV(x)=A(x)dx=s^2dx \]
\[ V=\int_{0}^{s}dV(x)=\int_{0}^{s}s^2dx \]
\[ dV(x)=A(x)dx=\pi{r}^2dx \]
\[ V=\int_{0}^{h}dV(x)=\int_{0}^{h}\pi{r}^2dx \]
\[ dV(x)=A(x)dx=\pi\left(r(1-\frac{x}{h})\right)^2dx=\pi{r^2}(1-\frac{2x}{h}+\frac{x^2}{h^2})dx \]
\[ V=\int_{0}^{h}dV(x)=\int_{0}^{h}\pi{r^2}(1-\frac{2x}{h}+\frac{x^2}{h^2})dx \]
This is Example 8, p. 359.
\[ dV(x)=A(x)dx=\pi\left(\sqrt{r^2-x^2}\right)^2dx=\pi(r^2-x^2)dx \]
\[ V=2\int_{0}^{r}dV(x)=2\int_{0}^{r}\pi(r^2-x^2)dx \]
(the "2" is out in front because we're using symmetry: we calculate the volume of half the sphere in running from 0 to $r$, then double it).
\[ V=\int_{a}^{b}dV(x)=\int_{a}^{b}A(x)dx=\int_{a}^{b}\pi r(x)^2dx \]
Let's look at example 2, p. 355.
Sometimes we "gut" a revolutionary solid with another revolutionary solid, leading to rings:
Let's look at example 4, p. 356.
\[ V=\int_{a}^{b}dV(x)=\int_{a}^{b}A(x)dx=\int_{a}^{b}\pi (r_{out}(x)^2-r_{in}(x)^2)dx \]