Lecture 12

Faculty of Science; Department of Mathematics
	Course Pages
	Course Policies
	Math Solvers
	Exams
	Quizzes
	Assignments
	Lectures

Readings For This Lecture

Keshet Course Notes

Chapter 6, pages 118 to 132

Summary

Group 6: Add a summary of the lecture in this space. Include examples, discussion, and links to external sources, if desired.

Exercises

1. Compute the integral

$\int \sin(x)\cos(x)dx$

by using the substitution $u=\sin(x)$ .

Solution
If u = sin(x), du = cos(x)dx, and the two cos(x) cancel out. ʃudu = u^2/2 + C Plug the value of u back in, and you get (sin(x))^2/2 + C

2. Compute the integral

$\int \sin(x)\cos(x)dx$

by using the trigonometric identity $\sin(2x)=2\sin(x)\cos(x)$ . Verify that you get the same answer as in question 1.

3. Compute the integral

$\int _{0}^{1}{\sqrt {1-x^{2}}}dx$

using the substitution $x=\sin(u)$ . Use a geometric argument to verify your solution.

4. Compute the integral

$\int {\frac {dx}{a^{2}+x^{2}}}$ .

5. Compute the integral

$\int {\frac {dx}{a^{2}-x^{2}}}$ .

6. Use integration by parts to show that

$\int x^{n}e^{x}dx=x^{n}e^{x}-\int x^{n-1}e^{x}dx$ .

Shouldn't the answer be? Am I missing something here?

$x^{n}e^{x}-\int n*x^{n-1}e^{x}dx$ . (correct! CameronChristou 14:19, 10 March 2011 (PST))

7. Make a substitution, and then use integration by parts to evaluate the integral

$\sin({\sqrt {x}})dx$ .

8. Find the center of mass of a distribution $p(x)=\sin(2x),0<x<2\pi$ .

This is a bit strange... would the answer be that it does not exist? Because the total mass, $\int _{0}^{2pi}sin(2x)dx=0$ and the center of mass equation would then be ${\frac {1}{0}}\int _{0}^{2pi}xp(x)dx$ which would be impossible.

(Good catch. The problem as stated doesn't make sense. First of all, the distribution will have negative values inside the interval of definition. Distributions (or densities) can't be negative. This is the reason for the eventual division by zero. For practice, try this question when $x$ is only defined for $0<x<{\tfrac {\pi }{2}}$ CameronChristou 12:15, 12 April 2011 (PDT))

9. Find the volume of a solid torus (donut shaped region) with radii $r$ and $R$ as shown in the figure below. (Hint: There are several ways to do this. You can consider this as a surface of revolution and slice it up into little disks with holes (“washers”) as shown.)

10. Let the density of mass along a bar of length $L$ be given by $p(x)=e^{-ax}$ . Find the total mass of the bar. Find the average mass density along the bar. Find the center of mass of the bar.