Thursday, December 6, 2012

Riemann Integral

Well to integrate we sometime think what is the physical importance of integration . We know differentiation is the way to find the slope . So what is integration .

Ok first of all we can see integration as an anti-derivative . Say dy/dx = m(x) then we can find y(b) - y(a) = ∫(x = a to b) m(x)dx .

Another representation of integration is the "summing the infinitesimal elements infinitely" .

Look at the example bellow 


                                                          Diagrams are  From Wikipedia 


The area under the curve can be determine by following way.
 Slice the area by lines parallel to y axis .Now the Area will obviously converge to the 
(a-b)/n * Sum (k = 0 to n-1)f(a+k) when n → ∞ inf. This is the Riemann Integral .



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