Riemann Sums

Student Question 1: What do you think a Riemann Sum is?

How is it used?
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What is a Riemann Sum?
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How can we get a more accurate result?
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Type Definition Picture

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Label the following graphs with term one from each category:
1: Left, right, midpoint 2: Over approximation, under approximation 3: Uniform, nonuniform

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 Examples:
1. Approximate the area between the x-axis and g(x) from x=10 to x=16 using
a left Riemann sum with 3 unequal subdivisions
x 10 12 15 16
g(x) 5 1 7 7

2. Use a left Riemann Sum and four uniform partitions to approximate the
area from x=2 and x=6

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
 3. Approximate the area between h(x) and the x-axis from x=0.5 to x=3.5 using
a midpoint Riemann Sum with 3 equal partitions.

0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5