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CALCULUS: AREA UNDER A CURVE

CALCULUS: AREA UNDER A CURVE. Final Project C & I 336 Terry Kent. “The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth.” – W.F. Osgood. RULE OF 4 . VERBALLY GRAPHICALLY (VISUALLY) NUMERICALLY SYMBOLICLY (ALGEBRAIC & CALCULUS).

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CALCULUS: AREA UNDER A CURVE

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  1. CALCULUS:AREA UNDER A CURVE Final Project C & I 336 Terry Kent “The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth.” – W.F. Osgood

  2. RULE OF 4 VERBALLY GRAPHICALLY (VISUALLY) NUMERICALLY SYMBOLICLY (ALGEBRAIC & CALCULUS) “Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.” – W.B. Smith

  3. VERBAL PROBLEM • Find the area under a curve bounded by the curve, the x-axis, and a vertical line. • EXAMPLE: Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y = x2, the x-axis, and the line x = 1. “Do or do not. There is no try.” -- Yoda

  4. GRAPHICALLY “Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way” – George Polya

  5. NUMERICALLY The area can be approximated by dividing the region into rectangles. Why rectangles? Easiest area formula! Would there be a better figure to use? Trapezoids! Why not use them?? Formula too complex !! “The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” -- Gudder

  6. AREA BY RECTANGLES Exploring Riemann Sums Approximate the area using 5 rectangles. Left-Hand Area = .24 Right-Hand Area = .444 Midpoint Area = .33

  7. Left EndpointInscribed Rectangles n=# rectangles a= left endpoint b=right endpoint

  8. Right EndpointCircumscribed Rectangles n=# rectangles a= left endpoint b=right endpoint

  9. Midpoint n=# rectangles a= left endpoint b=right endpoint

  10. NUMERICALLY AREA IS APPROACHING 1/3 !!

  11. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES • Approximate the area under the curve using 8 left-hand rectangles for f(x) = 4x - x2, [0,4]. A =

  12. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES • Approximate the area under the curve using 6 right-hand rectangles for f(x) = x3 + 2, [0,2]. A =

  13. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES • Approximate the area under the curve using 10 midpoint rectangles for f(x) = x3 - 3x2 + 2, [0,4]. A =

  14. SYMBOLICLY:ALGEBRAIC How could we make the approximation more exact? More rectangles!! How many rectangles would we need? ???

  15. SYMBOLICLY:ALGEBRAIC

  16. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES Use the Limit of the Sum Method to find the area of the following regions: • f(x) = 4x - x2, [0,4]. A = 32/3 • f(x) = x3 + 2, [0,2]. A = 8 • f(x) = x3 - 3x2 + 2, [0,4]. A = 8

  17. SYMBOLICALY:CALCULUS

  18. CONCLUSION The Area under a curve defined as y = f(x) from x = a to x = b is defined to be: “Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, not whether what we are saying is true.” -- Russell

  19. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES Use Integration to find the area of the following regions: • f(x) = 4x - x2, [0,4]. A =

  20. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES Use Integration to find the area of the following regions: • f(x) = x3 + 2, [0,2]. A =

  21. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES Use Integration to find the area of the following regions: • f(x) = x3 - 3x2 + 2, [0,4]. A =

  22. AREA APPLICATION

  23. FUTURE TOPICS PROPERTIES OF DEFINITE INTEGRALS AREA BETWEEN TWO CURVES OTHER INTEGRAL APPLICATIONS: VOLUME, WORK, ARC LENGTH OTHER NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS: TRAPEZOIDS, PARABOLAS

  24. REFERENCES • CALCULUS, Swokowski, Olinick, and Pence, PWS Publishing, Boston, 1994. • MATHEMATICS for Everyman, Laurie Buxton, J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1984. • Teachers Guide – AP Calculus, Dan Kennedy, The College Board, New York, 1997. • www.archive,math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/ • www.cs.jsu.edu/mcis/faculty/leathrum/Mathlet/riemann.html • www.csun.edu/~hcmth014/comicfiles/allcomics.html “People who don’t count, don’t count.” -- Anatole France

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