Calculus Crepe Cake

Posted on by Cindy

I made a crepe cake using disk method this year for Calculus BC! There were almost 50 layers of crepes (a total of almost 100 layers) and I am pretty proud of how thin the crepes turned out. My starving teenage classmates demolished the entire cake within five minutes. It felt pretty great.

Try to integrate using disk method from 0 to 5 of the function 2/x and x=3.5 around the y axis
Work shown for the long way…..

Here are some pictures below showing my journey of making these:

Some guys came out pretty ugly in the beginning.
Although creepy, this happy face crepe reflected what I felt when I finally spread it fully around the pan
FINALLY!
Layering and snacking on scraps…
End result!
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