The Marvelous World of Integration
Integration is a fundamental concept in calculus and is essentially the reverse process of differentiation. While differentiation is concerned with finding the rate at which a quantity changes, integration deals with finding the total accumulation of a quantity.
Definite and Indefinite Integrals
An indefinite integral is the set of all antiderivatives of a function. Typically, it's represented as:
∫ f(x) dx = F(x) + C, where F'(x) = f(x)
A definite integral, on the other hand, computes the accumulation of quantities between two points a and b. It's represented as:
∫ab f(x) dx = F(b) - F(a)
Applications of Integration
- Calculating Areas Under Curves
- Determining Volumes of Solids of Revolution
- Solving Differential Equations
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