While previous units dealt with differential calculus, this unit starts the study of integral calculus. As you may recall, differential calculus began with developing the intuition behind the notion of a tangent line. Integral calculus begins with understanding the intuition behind the idea of an area. We will be able to extend the notion of the area and apply these more general areas to various problems. This will allow us to unify differential and integral calculus through the Fundamental Theorem of calculus. Historically, this theorem marked the beginning of modern mathematics and is extremely important in all applications.
Completing this unit should take you approximately 10 hours.
In this section, you will learn about the concept of Integration. Integral calculus applies to a wide range of applied problems, such as area.
Read this section to learn about area. Work through practice problems 1-9.
Watch this video on finding the exact and approximate area of a region.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-15. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers.
Earlier, you learned about the concept of area. In this section, you will learn how to use notation to add a large set of values.
Read this section to learn about area. Work through practice problems 1-9.
Watch this video on riemann sums in summation notation.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-61. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers.
In this section, you will explore the Riemann Sums further, which will lead us to the concept of the definite integral. You will then learn about their applications.
Read this section to learn about the definite integral and its applications. Work through practice problems 1-6.
Watch this video on how to find the area between two curves using definite integrals.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-29. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers.
In this section, you will continue to explore the definite integral by learning about the properties of integrals that sometimes define other functions.
Read this section to learn about properties of definite integrals and how functions can be defined using definite integrals. Work through practice problems 1-5.
Watch this video on definite integral and a function's graph.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-51. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers for the odd-numbered questions against here.
In this section, you will explore the connection between areas, integrals, and antiderivatives, and how those connections can be used.
Read this section to learn about the relationship among areas, integrals, and antiderivatives. Work through practice problems 1-5.
Watch this video on Power Rule of Integration, Antiderivative of Polynomial Functions, Integrating Square Root Functions, and Antiderivatives of Rational Functions.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-25. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers.
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is one that you will use very often in calculating integrals.
Read this section to see the connection between derivatives and integrals. Work through practice problems 1-5.
Watch this video on Integrals and Fundamental theorem of calculus.
Watch this video on differentiating integral functions.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-67. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers.
In this section, you will apply previous general knowledge of antiderivatives to find antiderivatives of complicated functions.
Read this section to see how you can (sometimes) find an antiderivative. In particular, we will discuss the change of variable technique. Change of variable, also called substitution or u-substitution (for the most commonly-used variable), is a powerful technique that you will use time and again in integration. It allows you to simplify a complicated function to show how basic rules of integration apply to the function. Work through practice problems 1-4.
Watch these videos on change of variable, also called substitution or U-substitution.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-69. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers.
Using your knowledge of definite integrals, we will now take a look at how to solve applied problems.
Read this section to see how some applied problems can be reformulated as integration problems. Work through practice problems 1-4.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-41. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers.
In this section, you will learn how to use the tables of integrals. You will find the table of integrals useful in learning calculus. Think about the table of integrals as a guide to help you solve problems.
Read this section to learn how to use tables to find antiderivatives. See the Calculus Reference Facts for the table of integrals. Work through practice problems 1-5.
Work through the odd-numbered problems 1-55. Once you have completed the problem set, check your answers.
Take this assessment to see how well you understood these concepts.