; (notethat we haveincludedareasunderthe x-axisas negativevalues.)
;
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Yes, since is continuouson
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