5-2-40 Riemann Sum
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For the function given below, find a formula for the Riemann
sum obtained by dividing the interval two to four into N
equals subintervals and using the right hand endpoint for each
C sub K.
Then take a limit of the sum as N goes to Infinity to calculate
the area under the curve over two to four.
So F of X = 3 X.
First of all, we need to figure out what the distance is between
the interval they're giving us.
So in between 2:00 and 4:00, we'd have 4 - 2, and we're going
to subdivide it into N intervals.
So 4 - 2 / n or 2 / n is all these various intervals.
Now we need to pay attention that we're not starting until we
actually hit two.
So we're going to have 2 + 2 / n two plus 2 / n * 2, two plus 2 /
n + 3 based on how many intervals we've gone out.
So at some point we're going to have 2 + 2 / n * K for the K
interval out.
If we think about this, we'd have K going from one to N of
3X.
But now we're at some interval out there, 2 + 2 K over N
Remember, if we're at 2:00 to start, we have two.
The next one out is going to be 2 + 2 / n, and the next one's
out it's going to be 2 + 2 / n * 2.
And the next one out is going to be 2 + 2 / n * 3.
And we're going to go...
And eventually we're going to have this two plus 2K over N.
And then we're literally going to stick that into that F of X
equation to come up with the height.
So three times the 2 + 2 KN would be the height of that
location.
And then we have N intervals, each with a base of 2 / n So
when we multiply this out, 3 * 2 * 2 / n would give us 12 / n.
And three times two K / n * 2 / n is going to give us 12 KN
squared.
Now if K is going from one to N, there is no K here, so we have
12 / n + 12 / n + 12 / n + 12 over NN times, so 12 / n * n.
This next piece, the 12 / n ^2 doesn't have AK involved, so we
can pull it out and recall that the summation of any K equal 1
to north of just plain old K is a formula.
It's n * n + 1 all over two.
So that's where this piece down here came from.
So then if we multiply that, we get the NS to cancel in the
first term and 12 N times n + 1 / 2 N squared.
We're going to look at the leading coefficient of the
second term in just a moment.
So when we look at the limit as N goes to Infinity, we get 12 +
12 N squared plus twelve n / 2 N squared leading coefficients.
12 / 2 is 6, so 12 + 6 is 18.
So the limit of the sum as N goes to Infinity is 18.