Article
Which Planet is Largest?
Journal of Online Mathematics and Its Applications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2006
Disciplines
- Education and
- Mathematics
Abstract
For some students, using the methods of washers or cylindrical shells to find the volume of a solid obtained by revolving a given region about a given line is difficult to understand because of the abstraction involved. In this article, we use on-line resources and computational tools to approximate the measure of the volume of the space occupied by each planet as it orbits the Sun
Citation Information
Phillip Brown and James P. Braselton. "Which Planet is Largest?" Journal of Online Mathematics and Its Applications Vol. 6 (2006) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/james_braselton/12/