Re: volume of a picture

Bob May wrote:
> 
> Look at your homework problem and break it down into its constituent parts
> and it will become a lot easier to do.
> I once spent about 2 hours with 4 guys that were juniors in college working
> out a simple problem of figuring the volume of a cylinder partially filled
> with water and tilted.  

  When I was a junior in college, they let us use beer instead of
water.  


> The biggest concept that they just couldn't get
> through their heads was the breaking down of the problem into the various
> shapes of the water in the cylinder.
>