CHAPTER
5 The Integral
5.1 Approximating and Computing Area
Preliminary Questions
1. The interval [2, 5] is divided into 6 subintervals in order to calculate R6 for some function. What are the right-endpoints of those subintervals? What are the left-endpoints?
−2 2. If f (x) = x on [3, 7], which is larger: RN or L N ?
3. Which of the following pairs of sums are not equal? (a) 4 i, 4 i=1 =1 (b) 4 j 2, 5 k2 j=1 k=2 (c) 4 j, 5 (i − 1) j=1 i=2 4 ( + ), 5 ( − ) (d) i=1 i i 1 j=2 j 1 j 4. The interval [1, 5] is divided into 16 subintervals. (a) What are the left endpoints of the first and last subintervals? (b) What are the right endpoints of the first two subintervals? 5. True or False: (a) The right-endpoint rectangles lie below the graph of an increasing function.
(b) If f is monotonic, then the area under the graph lies in between RN and L N .
(c) If f is not monotonic, then L N and RN may converge to different limits as N →∞. (d) If f (x) is constant, then the right-endpoint rectangles all have the same height.
Exercises
1. An athlete runs with velocity 4 mph for half an hour, 6 mph for the next hour, and 5 mph for another half-hour. Compute the total distance traveled and indicate on a graph how this quantity can be interpreted as an area. ( ) ( 1 ) + ( )( ) + ( ) ( 1 ) = 1 The total distance traveled is 4 2 6 1 5 2 10 2 miles.
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0 0.5 1 1.5 2 hours 2. Figure 1 shows the velocity of an object over a 3-minute interval. Determine the distance 3. traveledAssume overthat the the velocity intervals of[0 an, 3] objectand [1 is, 2 32.5t]ft/s.(remember Use Eq. to (?? convert) to determine from mph the to distance miles per traveledminute). by the object over the time intervals (in seconds) [0, 2] and [2, 5]. The total distance traveled is given by the area under the graph of v = 32t.
[ , ] Figure1 ( 1 )( ) = During the interval 0 2 , the object travels 2 2 64 64 ft. [ , ] 1 ( )( − ) + ( )( ) = During the interval 2 5 , the object travels 2 3 160 64 3 64 336 ft.
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4. Consider f (x) = 2x + 3on[0, 3]. 2 5. Let (a)f (x)Determine= x + x − the2. left- and right-endpoints if [0, 3] is divided into 6 subintervals. (a) Calculate R and L for the interval [2, 5]. (b) Compute3 R6 and3 L6. (b) Sketch(c) Find the the graph exact of areaf and using the geometry rectangles and that compute make up the each error of in the the approximations. two calculations of (b). Let f (x) = x 2 + x − 2andseta = 2, b = 5, n = 3, h = x = (b − a) /n = (5 − 2) /3 = 1.
(a) Let xk = a + kh, k = 0, 1, 2, 3.
Selecting left endpoints of subintervals, xk , k = 0, 1, 2, or {2, 3, 4},wehave