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Example Question #3 : Understand The Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus
Using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus solve the integral.
To solve the integral using the Fundamental Theorem, we must first take the anti-derivative of the function. The anti-derivative of is . Since the limits of integration are 1 and 3, we must evaluate the anti-derivative at these two values.
denotes the anti-derivative.
When we do this,
and .
The next step is to find the difference between the values at each limit of integration, because the Fundamental Theorem states
.
Thus, we subtract to get a final answer of .
Example Question #5 : Understand The Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus
Solve using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
To solve the integral, we first have to know that the fundamental theorem of calculus is
.
Since denotes the anti-derivative, we have to evaluate the anti-derivative at the two limits of integration, 0 and 3.
The anti-derivative of the function is , so we must evaluate .
When we plug 3 into the anti-derivative, the solution is , and when we plug 0 into the anti-derivative, the solution is 0.
To find the final answer, we must take the difference of these two solutions, so the final answer is .
Example Question #6 : Understand The Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus
Solve using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
To solve the integral, we first have to know that the fundamental theorem of calculus is
.
Since denotes the anti-derivative, we have to evaluate the anti-derivative at the two limits of integration, 0 and 2.
The anti-derivative of the function
is
,
so we must evaluate .
When we plug 3 into the anti-derivative, the solution is , and when we plug 0 into the anti-derivative, the solution is 0.
To find the final answer, we must take the difference of these two solutions, so the final answer is .
Example Question #7 : Understand The Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus
Evaluate the indefinite integral:
First, compute the indefinite integral:
Note that the is the derivative of . So proceed by defining a new variable:
Now the integral can be written in terms of
Therefore:
When we go to compute the indefinite integral the constant of integration will be ignored since it will be subtracted out when we evaluate.
We can precede by either going back to the original variable and evaluate the original limits of integration, or we can find new limits of integration corresponding to the new variable . Let's look at both equivalent methods:
Solution 1)
so the last term vanishes. The first term reduces to since the tangent function is equal to .
Solution 2)
We could have also solved without converting back to the original variable. Instead, we could just change the limits of integration. Use the definition assigned to the variable , which was and then use this to find which value takes on when (lower limit) and when (upper limit).
Example Question #4 : Understand The Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus
This is a Fundamental Theorem of Calculus problem. Since a derivative and anti-derivative cancel each other out, we simply have to plug the limits into our function (with the outside variable). Then, we multiply each by the derivative of the bound:
Example Question #5 : Understand The Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus
Using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, the derivative of an anti-derivative simply gives us the function with the limits plugged in multiplied by the derivative of the respective bounds:
In the last step, we made use of the following trigonometric identity:
Example Question #1 : Understand The Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus
Evaluate the following indefinite integral:
Evaluate the following indefinite integral:
Recall that we can split subtraction and addition within integrals into separate integrals. This means that we can look at our problem in two steps.
Recall that we can integrate any exponential term by adding 1 to the exponent and dividing by the new exponent.
So,
Next, recall that the integral of sine is negative cosine. However, we already have a negative sine, so we should get positive cosine.
Now, we can combine our two halves to get our final answer.
Notice that we only have one "c" because c is just a constant, not a variable.
Example Question #51 : Integrating
If , which of the following statements is correct?
Remember that the notation for the antiderivative may appear as , but it may also take on a different form, as displayed in this question.
Conceptually, it might be useful to think of the antiderivative as the “opposite” of the derivative function. Essentially, the antiderivative “undoes” the derivative.
However, since taking the derivative of a constant results in zero, any constants not accounted for by the antiderivative must be represented by the variable .
The expression that contains all the correct components of the antiderivative expression (including and ), as well as acknowledges the relationship of , is .
Example Question #1 : Find Antiderivatives
Find the antiderivative of the function .
To check our work, let’s take the derivative of our answer. This is a useful strategy to determine if the antiderivative was found correctly, since
Note that there are two functions present ( and ), suggesting the need to use chain rule. When working with multiple functions in an antiderivative, a good strategy is to think through how chain rule would apply to the derivative, then implement the opposite steps to find the antiderivative.
We obtain the original function, . Notice how chain rule plays out - the derivative of the inner function, , is . Multiplying this derivative to results in . Therefore, the correct antiderivative is .
Example Question #42 : Integrating
Let . Find the antiderivative that satisfies .
To approach this problem, first find the general antiderivative expression for the function .
Then, the goal is to find the correct value of that allows for the condition .
The value of Cis solved for by plugging in into the newly found antiderivative formula. By substituting into the antiderivative expression creates the specific antiderivative asked for in this question. Therefore, the antiderivative expression that satisfies the given requirements is .
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