Tutorial 2: Integration and its applications
October 6, 2017
1. Find the area of the region bounded by the given curves
(a) y = 3x2 , y = 0 and x = 3
(b) y = x2 , y = 2 − x, x = 0 and x ≥ 0.
(c) x = 2y 2 and x = 4 + y 2
π
(d) y = cos x, y = sin 2x, x = 0 and x = 2
2. Determine the length of x = 23 (y − 1)3/2 between 1 ≤ y ≤ 4.
3. Redo the previous exercise using the function in the form y = f (x) instead.
4. Sketch the region enclosed by the two curves and find the volume of the solid obtained
by rotating the region about the x-axis
(a) y = x2 and y = 2x + 3
π
(b) y = sec x, y = csc x, y = 0, x = 0 and x = 2
5. Find the area of the surface obtained by rotating the curve about the x-axis
π
(a) y = cos 2x, 0 ≤ x ≤ 6
(b) x = 1 + 2y 2 , 1 ≤ y ≤ 2
6. The given curve is rotated about the y-axis. Find the area of the resulting surface
p a
(a) x = a2 − y 2 , 0 ≤ y ≤ 2
(b) y = 1 − x2 , 0 ≤ x ≤ 1
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7. A table of the values for f (t) is given
t 0 20 40 60 80 100 120
f (t) 1.2 2.8 4.0 4.7 5.1 5.2 4.8
R 120
Estimate 0
f (t) using
(a) The midpoint sum with three subintervals
(b) The trapezoidal rule with three subintervals
√
8. Let f (x) = y = x + x.
(a) Use Simpson’s rule with n = 10 to approximate the area of the surface obtained by
rotating the curve about the x-axis on the interval 1 ≤ x ≤ 2
(b) Find the error.