Multivariate Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Double Integral Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summer 2012
Background: Notes on Double Integration, Review of Polar Coordinates, Double Integrals
in Polar Coordinates
Video: Introduction to Double Integrals, Iterated Integrals, Double Integrals in Polar Coordinates
1. Sketch the domain of integration of the following double integrals:
Z 1 Z y=1
Z 1 Z y=x
2
(x + y 2 ) dydx,
(x + y ) dydx, (b)
(a)
0

y=0
1 Z x=y

(c)
0

(x + y 2 ) dxdy,

y=x
1 Z x=1

(d)
0

x=0

(x + y 2 ) dxdy.

x=y

RR

2. Evaluate the double integral D xy dA where D is the domain bounded by the curves y = x,
y = 6 x, and y = 0.
Comments: If we write dA = dydx, we need two double integrals to perform the evaluation.

Note that the line y = 6x intersects y = x at the point (4, 2). To see this, solve x = 6x
or x = (6 x)2 which reduces to x2 13x + 36 = 0. This quadratic factorizes as (x 4)(x 9).
Since 9 lies outside the domain, the point must be (4, 2). Hence we find that
Z 4 Z y=x
Z 6 Z y=6x
ZZ
xy dA =
xy dydx +
xy dydx.
0

y=0

y=0

If we write dA = dxdy, then there is only one double integral

ZZ
Z 2 Z x=6y
xy dA =
xy dxdy.
D

x=y 2

3. RR
Find the values
where D is the domain enclosed by the unit circle: (a)
RR of the following
RR
5dA,
(b)
x
dA,
(c)
(3x
4y).
D
D
D
RR
RR
Comments: (a) Since
dA
=
Area(D),
we
have
D
D 5dA = 5.
RR
RR
(b,c) By symmetry, D x dA = D y dA = 0. So the answer for both parts is 0.
RR
4. Find D ydA where D is the domain in the xy-plane bounded between the line x + y = 5
and the circle x2 + y 2 = 25.
Comments: The line and circle have two intersection points at (5, 0) and (0, 5). So we need
to compute
ZZ
Z 5 Z y=25x2
y dA =
y dy dx
D

y=5x


2
1 2 y= 25x
y 
dx
2
y=5x

Z
=
0

1
2

5

which is an integral of a polynomial in x.

1


(25 x2 ) (5 x)2 dx

5. Find the volume of the solid in the first octant bounded above by the paraboloid z = x2 + 3y 2
and below by the plane z = 0, and laterally by y = x2 and y = x.
Comments:The base D of the solid in the xy-plane is bounded between the curves y = x2
and y = x. We find that
Z 1 Z y=x
ZZ
2
2
(x2 + 3y 2 ) dydx
(x + 3y ) dA =
y=x2

Z
=
0

y=x
(x2 y + y 3 ) y=x2 dx

1

Z
=


2x3 (x4 + x6 ) dx

which is easy to evaluate.

6. Find the volume of the solid that is common to the cylinders x2 + y 2 = 25 and x2 + z 2 = 25
that lies above the xy-plane
Comments: The base D of the solid is just the domain bounded by the circle x2 + y 2 = 25
so the volume is given by
5

ZZ p
Z
25 x2 dA =

5
5

Z
=

y= 25x2

y= 25x2

p
25 x2 dy dx

y=25x2
p

25 x2 y 
dx

2
y= 25x

(25 x2 ) dx

= 2
5

which is easy to evaluate.

7. Set up only the double integral for the volume of the solid bounded above by the paraboloid
z = x2 + y 2 , below by thexy-plane, and laterally by the cylinder x2 + (y 1)2 = 1.
Z 1 Z y=1+ 1x2
Comments:
(x2 + y 2 ) dy dx.

y=1 1x2

8. Find the volume of the solid in the first octant bounded above by the graph of z = 9 x2 ,
below by z = 0, and laterally by y 2 = 3x.
Comments: The domain in the xy-plane is bounded between the parabola y 2 = 3x and the
line obtained from the intersection of z = 9 x2 with z = 0 so x = 3. Then the volume is
given by
ZZ
Z 3 Z x=3
(9 x2 ) dA =
(9 x2 ) dxdy
D

x=y 2 /3

0
3

Z
=
0

x=3
(9x x3 /3)x=y2 /3 dy

[(27 9) (3y 2 y 6 /34 )] dy

=
0

which is an easy integral to evaluate in y. In reverse order, we get the equivalent double
integral
ZZ

(9 x2 ) dA =

y= 3x

(9 x2 ) dy dx

y=0
3

=
0

y=3x
(9 x2 )y y=0 dx

(9 x2 )( 3x) dx
0
Z 3
(9 x x5/2 ) dx
= 3
Z

which again is an straightforward integral to evaluate.

4 Z y= x

Z
9. Reverse the order of integration in the following double integrals: (a)
Z 4 Z x=8
Z 1 Z x=ey
(b)
f (x, y) dxdy, (c)
f (x, y) dxdy.
0

x=2y

Comments:
Z 2 Z x=4
(a)
f (x, y) dxdy,
0

y=0

x=1

8 Z y=x/2

(b)

x=y 2

Z
f (x, y) dydx,

Z Z

f (x, y) dydx,
0

y=0

e Z y=1

(c)

f (x, y) dydx.
1

y=ln x

sin x
dx dy. (a) Describe the domain in the xy-plane given
x
0
y
by the limits of integration. This domain is given in terms of horizontal cross-sections. (b)
Write down the equivalent double integral by reversing the order of integration by giving the
domain by means of vertical cross-sections. Z
(c) Evaluate
the integralZ in part (b).
Z y=x

sin x
Comments: The integral in reversed order is
dy dx =
sin x dx = 2.
x
0
y=0
0

10. Consider the double integral