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Deriving the Volume of a Truncated Square Pyramid by Method of Slicing Brad Thompson
( a2 ,h)
f (x)
m f (x ) =
f (x) = y ! 0 =
! y=
( b2 ,0)
b
! A(y)dy
0
! [2g(y)] dy
2 0
( " ( a ! b) b% + = . *2$ y + ' - dy [where a, b, & h are constants] # 2h 2& , 0) " (a ! b) % = ($ y + b ' dy h & 0#
h 2
a3h b3h = ! 3(a ! b) 3(a ! b) = 1 " a3 ! b3 % h$ ' 3 # a!b & 1 " (a ! b)(a 2 + ab + b 2 ) % h$ ' 3 # (a ! b) & 1 h ( a 2 + ab + b 2 ) 3
[ =
(a !b ) h
y +b 3
h # % " (a ! b) % $0