INTEGRATION

-APPLICATION 2
Lecture
by
JK Gondwe

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LECTURE OBJECTIVES

Use integration to find area of a region

between two curves

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Cont’d
Recall that the area under a curve and above the x axis
can be computed by the definite integral.  
If we have two curves y  f ( x) and y  g ( x)
such that f ( x)  g ( x) 
then the area between them bounded by the horizontal
lines x  a and x  b is

  f(x)  g(x) dx or  Top  Bottom dx

b b

a a

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Area between two curves

  Find the area between the curves

y  x and y  x .
2 3

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Cont’d
Make a sketch of the functions
Determine the intersection points
for the two functions
x x 3 2

x  0 and x  1
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Cont’d

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Area between two curves
Area    upper function    lower function  dx
b

a
1

  x 2  x 3 dx
0

1
x x  3 4
  
 3 4 0
1 1
 
3 4
1

12
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Example 2

Determine the area of the region enclosed by y  cos x


and y  sin x between and the y-axis.
2

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Cont’d

Sketch and label the graph

Determine the intersection point
Shade the area of the region.

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Cont’d

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Cont’d

Area  ?

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Cont’d
We will need to do two integrals to find the area.
 

  cos x  sin x  dx    sin x  cos x  dx

0
4

4
2

 
 sin x  cos x 4
0    cos x  sin x  2

4

..
..
..

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Cont’d
We will need to do two integrals to find the area.
 

  cos x  sin x  dx    sin x  cos x  dx

0
4

2

4
 
 sin x  cos x 4
0    cos x  sin x  2

4

        
 sin  cos    sin 0  cos 0     cos  sin     cos  sin 
 4 4  2 2  4 4
 2 2  2 2
.    (0  1)  (0  1)   
   
 2 2   2 2 
2 11 2
2 2 2
0.8284
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Exercise
Find the area between the curves f ( x)  4  x 2 and g ( x)  x 2 - 4.

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Solution

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3

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Exercise

Find the area enclosed between the

curves y  cos x and y  sin x and

the x - axis for the values of x between x  0 and
2
Correct your answer to3 decimal places

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