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Example Question #1 : Connect Position, Velocity, And Acceleration
Given a particle with an acceleration at time to be . With initial conditions and where is the velocity at time , and is position of the particle at time .
Find the position at time .
We first must establish the following relationship
and
We now may note that
or
Since
We must plug in our initial condition
Therefore our new velocity equation is
We now may similarly integrate the velocity equation to find position.
Plugging in our second initial condition
We find our final equation to be:
Example Question #1 : Connect Position, Velocity, And Acceleration
Find the velocity function given the following information:
The acceleration function is ;
To find the velocity function, we integrate the acceleration function (the acceleration is the antiderivative of the velocity):
The rules of integration used were
,
To solve for the integration constant, we plug in the given initial condition:
Our final answer is
Example Question #1 : Connect Position, Velocity, And Acceleration
What is the position function if the initial position is 0 and the velocity function is given by ?
To find the position function, we must integrate the velocity function, as velocity is the antiderivative of position:
The following rule of integration was used:
Finally, we use the initial condition to solve for the integration constant:
Our final answer is
Example Question #2 : Connect Position, Velocity, And Acceleration
A particle at the origin has an initial velocity of . If its acceleration is given by , find the position of the particle after 1 second.
In this problem, letting denote the position of the particle and denote the velocity, we know that . Integrating and working backwards we have,
Plugging in our initial condition, , we see immediately that .
Repeating the process again for , we find that
Plugging in our initial condition, (we started at the origin) we see that . This gives us a final equation
. The problem asks for which is simply
Example Question #2 : Connect Position, Velocity, And Acceleration
Find the integral which satisfies the specific conditions of
Find the integral which satisfies the specific conditions of
To do this problem, we need to recall that integrals are also called anti-derivatives. This means that we can calculate integrals by reversing our integration rules.
Furthermore, to find the specific answer using initial conditions, we need to find our "c" at the end.
Thus, we can have the following rules.
Using these rules, we can find our answer:
Will become:
And so our anti-derivative is:
Now, let's find c. First set our above expression equal to y
Next, plug in for y and t. Then solve for c
Looks a bit messy, but we can clean it up to get:
Now, to solve, simply replace c with 12.12
Example Question #1 : Find Average Value
Which of the following theorems is related to finding the Average Value of a Function?
Mean Value Theorem for Integrals
Extreme Value Theorem
Intermediate Value Theorem
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Mean Value Theorem for Integrals
The following equation is used for finding the Average Value of a Function: . A rearrangement of this equation could be multiplying to both sides. Making this rearrangement, and substituting with , results in the following: . Assuming is continuous, this is the correct equation for the Mean Value Theorem for Integrals.
Example Question #2 : Find Average Value
Find the average value of the function over the interval . Round to the nearest hundredth.
When finding the average value of a function, it is useful to keep the following formula in mind: . This equation is very helpful because it provides a simple way to determine the average value by substituting in values of the bounds and the function itself:
Example Question #1 : Find Average Value
Find the average value of the function over the interval
When finding the average value of a function, it is useful to keep the following formula in mind: . This equation is very helpful because it provides a simple way to determine the average value by substituting in values of the bounds and the function itself:
Example Question #1 : Find Average Value
Find the average value of the function over the interval .
When finding the average value of a function, it is useful to keep the following formula in mind: . This equation allows the substitution of the function and interval to solve for the average value. While the function in this problem contains a trigonometric function, the same approach can be applied. Remember that the function is in terms of t, so the definite integral expression should likewise be in terms of .
Example Question #3 : Find Average Value
Identify the correct integral expression for the average value of the function over the interval .
When finding the average value of a function, it is useful to keep the following formula in mind: . This equation allows the substitution of the function and interval to solve for the average value. While the function in this problem contains a trigonometric function, the same approach can be applied. Remember that the function is in terms of , so the definite integral expression should likewise be in terms of .
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