Re: Solids of revolution
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- Subject: [mg116494] Re: Solids of revolution
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:17:46 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Tom, Perhaps you already know this, but as of version 6 Mathematica has the command RevolutionPlot3D. The doc page has many examples. Cheers -- Sjoerd de Vries (related?) On Feb 16, 10:38 am, Tom <tidetable... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I'm a high school math teacher, currently working on some > lessons to teach the volume of solids formed by revolution. > > I have some good starting points, a few animations and > demonstrations, but if anyone would be willing to share any of their > nice illustrations/graphics/commands I would welcome that. It would > be helpful for my students and helpful for me to learn to use > Mathematica more effectively. > > There are some nice examples at this website http://curvebank.calstate= la.edu/volrev/volrev.htm > that are done with Mathematica but the author has not published the > code so I am not sure how to create similar results. > > I apologize for a very generic request. For many on this group, > these are simple ideas to teach and program. For me, this is at the > limit of my mathematical and Mathematica knowledge and I'd like to > better understand and present these concepts. > > If you have anything to share that might be more than a simple post to > this group, you can email me at tidetable... at gmail.com > > Sincerely, Tom De Vries