Since we are integrating with respect to
first, the iterated integral has the form
where
is a cross sectional area in the
direction. So we are slicing the domain perpendicular to the
-axis and want to understand what a cross sectional area of the overall solid will look like. Several slices of the domain are shown in the middle image in
Figure 3.3.4. On a slice with fixed
value, the
values are bounded below by 0 and above by the
coordinate on the hypotenuse of the right triangle. Thus,
to find
we need to write the hypotenuse as a function of
The hypotenuse connects the points (0,0) and (2,3) and hence has equation
This gives the upper bound on
as
The leftmost vertical cross section is at
and the rightmost one is at
so we have
and
Therefore,
We evaluate the iterated integral by applying the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus first to the inner integral, and then to the outer one, and find that