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Use the shell method to set up and evaluate the integral that gives the volume of the solid generated by revolving the plane region about the x-axis:
y=x^3, x=0, y=8

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This provides an example of using shell method to find volume in an attached pdf file.

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In the shell method we divide the volume into concentric shells with their center aligned with the rotation axis.
In our case, the system looks ...

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