Sunday, March 28, 2010

Post 32

wow, post 32, we have been in school forreevvverrr... but anyway, the school year is almost over and this is just gonna be one less blog i have to do.

for this blog i'm going to go over volume and area of disks. a disk is a solid object, and to find the volume of it, you just solve for x or y of the given equation. you can tell by the problem which axis its about. so you draw the equation, then you reflect it. the formula is S r^2 dx, and the radius is the equation that is given. and the formula for the area of a disk is the same thing but the radius is not squared.

Example: Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating about the x-axis the region under the curve from -2 to 1: y=sqroot(-2x^2-10x+48)

so, since the formula needs to you to square the equation, the square root just disappears. then, you have to integrate the equation, then you do top-bottom, and multiple by pi. so after you integrate it looks like this: -2/3(x)^3-5x^2+48x

then after you plug in everything and do top-bottom it looks like this: -2/3(1)^3-5(1)^2+48(1)-(-2/3(-2)^3-5(-2)^2+48(-2))

then you can simplify it on your own even more, or plug it all into your calculator. i chose to simplify it more by hand first because with that many numbers it is pretty easy to make a mistake in your calculator. So i further simplified it to -(2/3)-5+48+(16/3)+20+96 which equals: 491/3.

so then, you have to multiply that by pi, like i mentioned above, and the final answer is 491(pi)/3.

since we have to post things we have trouble with, so other people can comment and help us out, i am going to go ahead and say that i suck at integrating things with ln, e, or sin and cos n stuff, but after doing that packet on integration, i can do the simple integrating, just not the stuff i mentioned above.

3 comments:

  1. The integral of sin is just -cos since the derivative of -cos is sin and
    the integral of cos is sin since the derivative of sin is cos

    Example: Integrate: cos (2x)
    So you know the integral of cos now is sin, but you are left with a 2.
    To get rid of the 2, you have to multiply the integral by 1/2.
    The integral of cos (2x) = 1/2 sin (2x) + c
    You can check your answer by taking the derivative of that
    The derivative of 1/2 sin(2x) is 1/2 cos (2x) (2) or cos (2x)

    Another common integral with sin and cos is
    Integrate cos x/ sin x
    Remember that if the top of the fraction is the derivative of the bottom, it is natural log integration.
    The derivative of sin x is cos x.
    Therefore the integral is ln |sin x| + c

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  2. Integrate the (the square root of x - 1) ^2/ the square root of x
    u= the square root of x -1 du = 1/2 x^-1/2
    since there is a negative exponent, the x^-1/2 will go to the bottom becoming x^1/2, which is what is needed
    but there is an extra 2 at the bottom. To get rid of the 2, you will have to multiply by 2
    2 integral u^2
    2(1/3) u ^3
    2/3 u^3
    2/3 (the square root of x -1)^3 +C

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  3. You know something is a natural log when the top is the derivative of the bottom.

    For e integration, the exponent of e is always u. Once you find u, do substitution like normal except you'd integrate e^u du.

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