CK12 Calculus - Single Variable

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1


  1. ; (notethat we haveincludedareasunderthe x-axisas negativevalues.)




  2. ;




  3. ;










  4. Yes, since is continuouson




  5. No, since ;




DefiniteIntegrals


LearningObjectives



  • Use RiemannSumsto approximateareasundercurves

  • Evaluatedefiniteintegralsas limitsof RiemannSums
    Introduction
    In the LessonThe AreaProblemwe definedthe area undera curvein termsof a limit of sums.


where


and were examplesofRiemannSums. In general,RiemannSumsare of form
whereeach is the valuewe use to find the lengthof the rectanglein the sub-interval.For example,
we usedthe maximumfunctionvaluein eachsub-intervalto find the uppersumsand the minimumfunction
in eachsub-intervalto find the lowersums.But sincethe functionis continuous,we couldhaveusedany

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