volume as integral
The volume of a solid of revolution (http://planetmath.org/VolumeOfSolidOfRevolution) can be obtained from
where the integrand is the area of the intersection disc of the solid of revolution and a plane perpendicular to the axis of revolution at a certain value of . This volume formula may be generalized to an analogous formula containing instead of the area a more general intersection area obtained from a given solid by cutting it with a set of parallel planes
determined by the parameter on a certain axis. One must assume that the function
is continuous on an interval
where and correspond to the “ends” of the solid. If the -axis forms an angle (http://planetmath.org/AngleBetweenTwoLines) with the normal line of those planes, then we have the volume formula of the form