Paper 2, Section II, A
Part IB, 2015
A right circular cylinder of radius and length has volume and total surface area . Use Lagrange multipliers to do the following:
(a) Show that, for a given total surface area, the maximum volume is
determining the integer in the process.
(b) For a cylinder inscribed in the unit sphere, show that the value of which maximises the area of the cylinder is
determining the integers and as you do so.
(c) Consider the rectangular parallelepiped of largest volume which fits inside a hemisphere of fixed radius. Find the ratio of the parallelepiped's volume to the volume of the hemisphere.
[You need not show that suitable extrema you find are actually maxima.]