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Exercise 2.9 A 3-dimensional cube has vertices, edges, and faces. In a d-dimensional<br />

cube, these components are called faces. A vertex is a 0-dimensional face, an edge a<br />

1-dimensional face, etc.<br />

1. For 0 ≤ k ≤ d, how many k-dimensional faces does a d-dimensional cube have?<br />

2. What is the total number <strong>of</strong> faces <strong>of</strong> all dimensions? The d-dimensional face is the<br />

cube itself which you can include in your count.<br />

3. What is the surface area <strong>of</strong> a unit cube in d-dimensions (a unit cube has side-length<br />

1 in each dimension)?<br />

4. What is the surface area <strong>of</strong> the cube if the length <strong>of</strong> each side was 2?<br />

5. Prove that the volume <strong>of</strong> a unit cube is close to its surface.<br />

Exercise 2.10 Consider the portion <strong>of</strong> the surface area <strong>of</strong> a unit radius, 3-dimensional<br />

ball with center at the origin that lies within a circular cone whose vertex is at the origin.<br />

What is the formula for the incremental unit <strong>of</strong> area when using polar coordinates to<br />

integrate the portion <strong>of</strong> the surface area <strong>of</strong> the ball that is lying inside the circular cone?<br />

What is the formula for the integral? What is the value <strong>of</strong> the integral if the angle <strong>of</strong> the<br />

cone is 36 ◦ ? The angle <strong>of</strong> the cone is measured from the axis <strong>of</strong> the cone to a ray on the<br />

surface <strong>of</strong> the cone.<br />

Exercise 2.11 For what value <strong>of</strong> d does the volume, V (d), <strong>of</strong> a d-dimensional unit ball<br />

take on its maximum?<br />

Hint: Consider the ratio<br />

V (d)<br />

V (d−1) .<br />

Exercise 2.12 How does the volume <strong>of</strong> a ball <strong>of</strong> radius two behave as the dimension <strong>of</strong> the<br />

space increases? What if the radius was larger than two but a constant independent <strong>of</strong> d?<br />

What function <strong>of</strong> d would the radius need to be for a ball <strong>of</strong> radius r to have approximately<br />

constant volume as the dimension increases?<br />

Exercise 2.13 If lim<br />

d→∞<br />

V (d) = 0, the volume <strong>of</strong> a d-dimensional ball for sufficiently large<br />

d must be less than V (3). How can this be if the d-dimensional ball contains the three<br />

dimensional ball?<br />

Exercise 2.14 Consider a unit radius, circular cylinder in 3-dimensions <strong>of</strong> height one.<br />

The top <strong>of</strong> the cylinder could be an horizontal plane or half <strong>of</strong> a circular ball. Consider<br />

these two possibilities for a unit radius, circular cylinder in 4-dimensions. In 4-dimensions<br />

the horizontal plane is 3-dimensional and the half circular ball is 4-dimensional. In each<br />

<strong>of</strong> the two cases, what is the surface area <strong>of</strong> the top face <strong>of</strong> the cylinder? You can use<br />

V (d) for the volume <strong>of</strong> a unit radius, d-dimension ball and A(d) for the surface area <strong>of</strong><br />

a unit radius, d-dimensional ball. An infinite length, unit radius, circular cylinder in 4-<br />

dimensions would be the set {(x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , x 4 )|x 2 2 + x 2 3 + x 2 4 ≤ 1} where the coordinate x 1 is<br />

the axis.<br />

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