Area under curve

[fredrick]

can we find the area under a curve with respect to y? cause sometimes its harder with respect to x cus u have to split it up..

[calculus]

What do you mean with respect to y?

[fredrick]

i mean when integrating so , wiht the terminals the y values

[bturville]

i don't see why not.

[fredrick]

thanks just never seen it anywhere in the methods course so thought i would restrict its use to spech only.

[Mao]

don't see why you ever need to in methods, but it's correct.

[fredrick]

don't see why you ever need to in methods, but it's correct.

i saw one in one of the exams just b4

[Mao]

which one? was it VCAA?

[fredrick]

which one? was it VCAA?

neap

[trinon]

They do it in Specialist Maths and above.

[nerd]

We did this as part of our Methods course...

[onlyfknhuman]

What the hell? is it just re-arranging for Y instead of X? then integrating?

[fredrick]

What the hell? is it just re-arranging for Y instead of X? then integrating?

yes, but also changing the terminals to the y-values. this helps for areas under certain graphs where you have to split the areas into 2

[onlyfknhuman]

Oh so instead of the integrals between ' whatver' we take it from the Y-axis so the y values? the max and the min values ?

[bturville]

yep.