Volume shared by two perpendicular unit cylinders
Question
Two infinite circular cylinders, each of radius , have axes that meet at a right angle. What is the volume of the region lying inside both?
Short answer
. Put the axes along the - and -directions, so the solids are and . At height the cross-section is a square of side , area , and .
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