13th September 2013
Just read on Torricelli's trumpet in Wikipedia. This states that there is a body having infinite surface but finite volume! That sounds contradictory at first.
Function in question is
from \(x=1\) to \(a\).
Volume is
Surface is
Above plot is from Maxima using:
plot3d( [x,1/x*sin(v),1/x*cos(v)], [x,1,8], [v,0,2*%pi] );
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Author: Elmar Klausmeier