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ERIC Number: EJ938171
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-May
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0746-8342
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Complementary Coffee Cups
Banchoff, Thomas
College Mathematics Journal, v37 n3 p170-175 May 2006
What may have been the birth of a new calculus problem took place when the author noticed that two coffee cups, one convex and one concave, fit nicely together, and he wondered which held more coffee. The fact that their volumes were about equal led to the topic of this article: complementary surfaces of revolution with equal volumes.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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