Higher Level Integration Marathon & Questions
This is a marathon thread for integration (mainly numerical or computation of integrals including manipulation of integrals).
Please aim to pitch your questions for first-year/second-year university level maths, although not necessary. Excelling & gifted/talented secondary school students are also invited to contribute.
Note 1: Please do not post HIGH SCHOOL integration (ext 1 or ext 2) related questions. Use the respective Maths Ext 1 & Maths Ext 2 forums instead.
Note 2: Questions involving theorems such as the FTC are better suited to the Calculus & Analysis marathon not this one.
(mod edit 7/6/17 by dan964)
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This thread is for people to bombard with integrals that ARE allowed to stretch beyond the MX2 syllabus and into the world of real maths. And for me to spectate and join in later in the year.
I invite everyone to participate.
I will kick off with a VERY cliche question.
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Last edited by dan964; 7 Jun 2017 at 4:44 PM.
Alternatively, use polar coordinates (the 'standard' approach I see that omegadot was alluding to).
ln(a + 1)
One can read about Feynman's commentary on differentiating under the integral in these links:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differ...opular_culture
• http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/b...ffunderint.pdf
Apparently this trick wasn't taught too much back then haha.
Still isn't taught too much really, but it's pretty useful!
That's why I wrote that question like last month in the undergrad marathon about differentiating things of the formw.r.t. t, as that is just a strengthened form of the differentiation under the integral trick, where domains are also allowed to vary.
In fact there is also such a trick when the integral is instead over a time varying domain in R^n, and it is quite useful too.
One more before I wait for the ones already mentioned to be answered:
5.
i) Find an expression for the volume of an n-dimensional ball of radius r. (Hint: This is like computing volumes of 3-d solids in MX2 by slices, but the cross sections of n-balls are (n-1)-balls.)
ii) Letbe the probability that a randomly selected* point in the unit n-ball has distance less than
from the centre. Show that
as
, regardless of what
is.
The perhaps surprising moral: Almost all of the mass of a high dimensional ball is concentrated near the boundary of this ball!
*Randomly w.r.t n-dimensional volume.
Last edited by seanieg89; 8 Jan 2016 at 6:08 PM.
I feel like this thread should of been made about 9 months later when we (2015'ers) know what were doing.
I'll post my own problem...
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If I am a conic section, then my e = ∞
Just so we don't have this discussion in the future, my definition of the natural numbers includes 0.
For 3, the swapping of order of integration is fine can be justified by your choice of the many variants of Fubini's/Tonelli's theorem. You don't need an especially powerful one because the function is smooth and absolutely integrable.
For 4, I think people should still attempt it / try other methods, as it is much less clear why "letting a=-i" should be valid. Letting a=-1 would give us something nonsensical for example. Definitely need to say something more to justify the formula being the same as that of the Gaussian integral (and why that particular choice of square root and not the other).
If I am a conic section, then my e = ∞
Just so we don't have this discussion in the future, my definition of the natural numbers includes 0.
Here's a very deceptive integral which appears simple.
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If I am a conic section, then my e = ∞
Just so we don't have this discussion in the future, my definition of the natural numbers includes 0.
Here's another nice question.
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