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Definite integral. How to calculate the area of a figure

We now turn to the consideration of applications of the integral calculus. In this lesson, we will analyze a typical and most common task. How to use a definite integral to calculate the area of a plane figure. Finally, those who seek meaning in higher mathematics - may they find it. You never know. We'll have to get closer in life country cottage area elementary functions and find its area using a definite integral.

To successfully master the material, you must:

1) understand indefinite integral at least at an average level. Thus, dummies should first read the lesson Not.

2) Be able to apply the Newton-Leibniz formula and calculate the definite integral. You can establish warm friendly relations with certain integrals on the page Definite integral. Solution examples.

In fact, in order to find the area of \u200b\u200ba figure, you do not need so much knowledge of the indefinite and definite integral. The task "calculate the area using a definite integral" always involves the construction of a drawing, so much more topical issue will be your knowledge and drawing skills. In this regard, it is useful to refresh the memory of the graphs of the main elementary functions, and, at a minimum, to be able to build a straight line, a parabola and a hyperbola. This can be done (many need) with the help of methodological material and articles on geometric transformations of graphs.

Actually, everyone is familiar with the problem of finding the area using a definite integral since school, and we will go a little ahead of school curriculum. This article might not exist at all, but the fact is that the problem occurs in 99 cases out of 100, when a student is tormented by a hated tower with enthusiasm mastering a course in higher mathematics.

The materials of this workshop are presented simply, in detail and with a minimum of theory.

Let's start with a curvilinear trapezoid.

Curvilinear trapezoid is called a flat figure bounded by the axis , straight lines , and the graph of a function continuous on a segment that does not change sign on this interval. Let this figure be located not less abscissa:

Then the area of a curvilinear trapezoid is numerically equal to a certain integral. Any definite integral (that exists) has a very good geometric meaning. On the lesson Definite integral. Solution examples I said that a definite integral is a number. And now it's time to state another useful fact. From the point of view of geometry, the definite integral is the AREA.

I.e, the definite integral (if it exists) geometrically corresponds to the area of some figure. For example, consider the definite integral . The integrand defines a curve on the plane that is located above the axis (those who wish can complete the drawing), and the definite integral itself is numerically equal to the area of the corresponding curvilinear trapezoid.

Example 1

This is a typical task statement. First and crucial moment solutions - drawing. Moreover, the drawing must be built RIGHT.

When building a blueprint, I recommend the following order: at first it is better to construct all lines (if any) and only after- parabolas, hyperbolas, graphs of other functions. Function graphs are more profitable to build point by point, the technique of pointwise construction can be found in reference material Graphs and properties of elementary functions. There you can also find material that is very useful in relation to our lesson - how to quickly build a parabola.

In this problem, the solution might look like this.
Let's make a drawing (note that the equation defines the axis):

I will not hatch a curvilinear trapezoid, it is obvious here what area in question. The solution continues like this:

On the segment, the graph of the function is located over axis, That's why:

Answer:

Who has difficulty calculating the definite integral and applying the Newton-Leibniz formula , refer to the lecture Definite integral. Solution examples.

After the task is completed, it is always useful to look at the drawing and figure out if the answer is real. In this case, “by eye” we count the number of cells in the drawing - well, about 9 will be typed, it seems to be true. It is quite clear that if we had, say, the answer: 20 square units, then, obviously, a mistake was made somewhere - 20 cells clearly do not fit into the figure in question, at most a dozen. If the answer turned out to be negative, then the task was also solved incorrectly.

Example 2

Calculate the area of the figure bounded by lines, , and axis

This is an example for independent solution. Complete Solution and the answer at the end of the lesson.

What to do if the curvilinear trapezoid is located under axle?

Example 3

Calculate the area of the figure bounded by lines and coordinate axes.

Decision: Let's make a drawing:

If the curvilinear trapezoid is located under axle(or at least not higher given axis), then its area can be found by the formula:
In this case:

Attention! Don't confuse the two types of tasks:

1) If you are asked to solve just a definite integral without any geometric meaning, then it can be negative.

2) If you are asked to find the area of a figure using a definite integral, then the area is always positive! That is why the minus appears in the formula just considered.

In practice, most often the figure is located in both the upper and lower half-planes, and therefore, from the simplest school problems, we move on to more meaningful examples.

Example 4

Find the area of a flat figure bounded by lines , .

Decision: First you need to complete the drawing. Generally speaking, when constructing a drawing in area problems, we are most interested in the intersection points of lines. Let's find the points of intersection of the parabola and the line. This can be done in two ways. The first way is analytical. We solve the equation:

Hence, the lower limit of integration , the upper limit of integration .
It is best not to use this method if possible..

It is much more profitable and faster to build the lines point by point, while the limits of integration are found out as if “by themselves”. The point-by-point construction technique for various charts is discussed in detail in the help Graphs and properties of elementary functions. Nevertheless, the analytical method of finding the limits still sometimes has to be used if, for example, the graph is large enough, or the threaded construction did not reveal the limits of integration (they can be fractional or irrational). And we will also consider such an example.

We return to our task: it is more rational to first construct a straight line and only then a parabola. Let's make a drawing:

I repeat that with pointwise construction, the limits of integration are most often found out “automatically”.

And now the working formula: If there is some continuous function on the interval greater than or equal some continuous function, then the area of the figure bounded by the graphs of these functions and straight lines, can be found by the formula:

Here it is no longer necessary to think about where the figure is located - above the axis or below the axis, and, roughly speaking, it matters which chart is ABOVE(relative to another graph), and which one is BELOW.

In the example under consideration, it is obvious that on the segment the parabola is located above the straight line, and therefore it is necessary to subtract from

The completion of the solution might look like this:

The desired figure is limited by a parabola from above and a straight line from below.
On the segment , according to the corresponding formula:

Answer:

In fact, the school formula for the area of a curvilinear trapezoid in the lower half-plane (see simple example No. 3) is special case formulas . Since the axis is given by the equation , and the graph of the function is located not higher axes, then

And now a couple of examples for an independent solution

Example 5

Example 6

Find the area of the figure enclosed by the lines , .

In the course of solving problems for calculating the area using a certain integral, a funny incident sometimes happens. The drawing was made correctly, the calculations were correct, but due to inattention ... found the area of the wrong figure, that's how your obedient servant screwed up several times. Here is a real life case:

Example 7

Calculate the area of the figure bounded by the lines , , , .

Decision: Let's make a drawing first:

…Eh, the drawing came out crap, but everything seems to be legible.

The figure whose area we need to find is shaded in blue.(carefully look at the condition - how the figure is limited!). But in practice, due to inattention, a “glitch” often occurs, that you need to find the area of \u200b\u200bthe figure that is shaded in green!

This example is also useful in that in it the area of \u200b\u200bthe figure is calculated using two definite integrals. Really:

1) On the segment above the axis there is a straight line graph;

2) On the segment above the axis is a hyperbola graph.

It is quite obvious that the areas can (and should) be added, therefore:

Answer:

Let's move on to one more meaningful task.

Example 8

Calculate the area of a figure bounded by lines,
Let's present the equations in a "school" form, and perform a point-by-point drawing:

It can be seen from the drawing that our upper limit is “good”: .
But what is the lower limit? It is clear that this is not an integer, but what? May be ? But where is the guarantee that the drawing is made with perfect accuracy, it may well turn out that. Or root. What if we didn't get the graph right at all?

In such cases, you have to spend additional time and refine the limits of integration analytically.

Let's find the points of intersection of the line and the parabola.
To do this, we solve the equation:

,

Really, .

The further solution is trivial, the main thing is not to get confused in substitutions and signs, the calculations here are not the easiest.

On the segment , according to the corresponding formula:

Answer:

Well, in conclusion of the lesson, we will consider two tasks more difficult.

Example 9

Calculate the area of the figure bounded by lines , ,

Decision: Draw this figure in the drawing.

Damn, I forgot to sign the schedule, and redoing the picture, sorry, not hotz. Not a drawing, in short, today is a day =)

For pointwise construction, you need to know appearance sinusoids (and in general it is useful to know graphs of all elementary functions), as well as some sine values, they can be found in trigonometric table. In some cases (as in this case), it is allowed to construct a schematic drawing, on which graphs and integration limits must be displayed in principle correctly.

There are no problems with the integration limits here, they follow directly from the condition: - "x" changes from zero to "pi". We make a further decision:

On the segment, the graph of the function is located above the axis, therefore:

In fact, in order to find the area of \u200b\u200ba figure, you do not need so much knowledge of the indefinite and definite integral. The task "calculate the area using a definite integral" always involves the construction of a drawing, so your knowledge and drawing skills will be a much more relevant issue. In this regard, it is useful to refresh the memory of the graphs of the main elementary functions, and, at a minimum, be able to build a straight line, and a hyperbola.

A curvilinear trapezoid is a flat figure bounded by an axis, straight lines, and a graph of a continuous function on a segment that does not change sign on this interval. Let this figure be located not less abscissa:

Then the area of a curvilinear trapezoid is numerically equal to a certain integral. Any definite integral (that exists) has a very good geometric meaning.

In terms of geometry, the definite integral is the AREA.

I.e, the definite integral (if it exists) corresponds geometrically to the area of some figure. For example, consider the definite integral . The integrand defines a curve on the plane that is located above the axis (those who wish can complete the drawing), and the definite integral itself is numerically equal to the area of the corresponding curvilinear trapezoid.

Example 1

This is a typical task statement. The first and most important moment of the decision is the construction of a drawing. Moreover, the drawing must be built RIGHT.

In this problem, the solution might look like this.
Let's make a drawing (note that the equation defines the axis):

On the segment, the graph of the function is located over axis, That's why:

Answer:

After the task is completed, it is always useful to look at the drawing and figure out if the answer is real. In this case, "by eye" we count the number of cells in the drawing - well, about 9 will be typed, it seems to be true. It is quite clear that if we had, say, the answer: 20 square units, then, obviously, a mistake was made somewhere - 20 cells clearly do not fit into the figure in question, at most a dozen. If the answer turned out to be negative, then the task was also solved incorrectly.

Example 3

Calculate the area of the figure bounded by lines and coordinate axes.

Decision: Let's make a drawing:

If the curvilinear trapezoid is located under axle(or at least not higher given axis), then its area can be found by the formula:

In this case:

Attention! Don't confuse the two types of tasks:

1) If you are asked to solve just a definite integral without any geometric meaning, then it can be negative.

2) If you are asked to find the area of a figure using a definite integral, then the area is always positive! That is why the minus appears in the formula just considered.

In practice, most often the figure is located in both the upper and lower half-planes, and therefore, from the simplest school problems, we move on to more meaningful examples.

Example 4

Find the area of a flat figure bounded by lines , .

Hence, the lower limit of integration , the upper limit of integration .

It is best not to use this method if possible..

It is much more profitable and faster to build the lines point by point, while the limits of integration are found out as if “by themselves”. Nevertheless, the analytical method of finding the limits still sometimes has to be used if, for example, the graph is large enough, or the threaded construction did not reveal the limits of integration (they can be fractional or irrational). And we will also consider such an example.

We return to our task: it is more rational to first construct a straight line and only then a parabola. Let's make a drawing:

Here it is no longer necessary to think where the figure is located - above the axis or below the axis, and, roughly speaking, it matters which chart is ABOVE(relative to another graph), and which one is BELOW.

In the example under consideration, it is obvious that on the segment the parabola is located above the straight line, and therefore it is necessary to subtract from

The completion of the solution might look like this:

The desired figure is limited by a parabola from above and a straight line from below.
On the segment , according to the corresponding formula:

Answer:

Example 4

Calculate the area of the figure bounded by the lines , , , .

Decision: Let's make a drawing first:

This example is also useful in that in it the area of \u200b\u200bthe figure is calculated using two definite integrals.

Really:

1) On the segment above the axis there is a straight line graph;

2) On the segment above the axis is a hyperbola graph.

It is quite obvious that the areas can (and should) be added, therefore:

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In this article, you will learn how to find the area of a figure bounded by lines using integral calculations. For the first time, we encounter the formulation of such a problem in high school, when the study of certain integrals has just been completed and it is time to start the geometric interpretation of the knowledge gained in practice.

So, what is required to successfully solve the problem of finding the area of \u200b\u200ba figure using integrals:

Ability to correctly draw drawings;
Ability to solve a definite integral using the well-known Newton-Leibniz formula;
The ability to "see" a more profitable solution - i.e. to understand how in this or that case it will be more convenient to carry out the integration? Along the x-axis (OX) or y-axis (OY)?
Well, where without correct calculations?) This includes understanding how to solve that other type of integrals and correct numerical calculations.

Algorithm for solving the problem of calculating the area of a figure bounded by lines:

1. We build a drawing. It is advisable to do this on a piece of paper in a cage, on a large scale. We sign with a pencil above each graph the name of this function. The signature of the graphs is done solely for the convenience of further calculations. Having received the graph of the desired figure, in most cases it will be immediately clear which integration limits will be used. Thus we solve the problem graphic method. However, it happens that the values of the limits are fractional or irrational. Therefore, you can make additional calculations, go to step two.

2. If the integration limits are not explicitly set, then we find the points of intersection of the graphs with each other, and see if our graphical solution coincides with the analytical one.

3. Next, you need to analyze the drawing. Depending on how the function graphs are located, there are different approaches to find the area of a figure. Consider different examples to find the area of a figure using integrals.

3.1. The most classic and simplest version of the problem is when you need to find the area of a curvilinear trapezoid. What is a curvilinear trapezoid? This is a flat figure bounded by the x-axis (y=0), straight x = a, x = b and any curve continuous on the interval from a before b. At the same time, this figure is non-negative and is located not lower than the x-axis. In this case, the area of the curvilinear trapezoid is numerically equal to the definite integral calculated using the Newton-Leibniz formula:

Example 1 y = x2 - 3x + 3, x = 1, x = 3, y = 0.

What lines define the figure? We have a parabola y = x2 - 3x + 3, which is located above the axis OH, it is non-negative, because all points of this parabola have positive values. Next, given straight lines x = 1 and x = 3 that run parallel to the axis OU, are the bounding lines of the figure on the left and right. Well y = 0, she is the x-axis, which limits the figure from below. The resulting figure is shaded, as seen in the figure on the left. In this case, you can immediately begin to solve the problem. Before us is a simple example of a curvilinear trapezoid, which we then solve using the Newton-Leibniz formula.

3.2. In the previous paragraph 3.1, the case was analyzed when the curvilinear trapezoid is located above the x-axis. Now consider the case when the conditions of the problem are the same, except that the function lies under the x-axis. A minus is added to the standard Newton-Leibniz formula. How to solve such a problem, we will consider further.

Example 2 . Calculate the area of a figure bounded by lines y=x2+6x+2, x=-4, x=-1, y=0.

AT this example we have a parabola y=x2+6x+2, which originates from under the axis OH, straight x=-4, x=-1, y=0. Here y = 0 limits the desired figure from above. Direct x = -4 and x = -1 these are the boundaries within which the definite integral will be calculated. The principle of solving the problem of finding the area of \u200b\u200ba figure almost completely coincides with example number 1. The only difference is that given function is not positive, and everything is also continuous on the interval [-4; -1] . What does not positive mean? As can be seen from the figure, the figure that lies within the given x has exclusively "negative" coordinates, which is what we need to see and remember when solving the problem. We are looking for the area of \u200b\u200bthe figure using the Newton-Leibniz formula, only with a minus sign at the beginning.

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So, what is required to successfully solve the problem of finding the area of \u200b\u200ba figure using integrals:

Ability to correctly draw drawings;
Ability to solve a definite integral using the well-known Newton-Leibniz formula;
The ability to "see" a more profitable solution - i.e. to understand how in this or that case it will be more convenient to carry out the integration? Along the x-axis (OX) or y-axis (OY)?
Well, where without correct calculations?) This includes understanding how to solve that other type of integrals and correct numerical calculations.

Algorithm for solving the problem of calculating the area of a figure bounded by lines:

1. We build a drawing. It is advisable to do this on a piece of paper in a cage, on a large scale. We sign with a pencil above each graph the name of this function. The signature of the graphs is done solely for the convenience of further calculations. Having received the graph of the desired figure, in most cases it will be immediately clear which integration limits will be used. Thus, we solve the problem graphically. However, it happens that the values of the limits are fractional or irrational. Therefore, you can make additional calculations, go to step two.

2. If the integration limits are not explicitly set, then we find the points of intersection of the graphs with each other, and see if our graphical solution coincides with the analytical one.

3. Next, you need to analyze the drawing. Depending on how the graphs of functions are located, there are different approaches to finding the area of \u200b\u200bthe figure. Consider various examples of finding the area of a figure using integrals.

Example 1 y = x2 - 3x + 3, x = 1, x = 3, y = 0.

What lines define the figure? We have a parabola y = x2 - 3x + 3, which is located above the axis OH, it is non-negative, because all points of this parabola are positive. Next, given straight lines x = 1 and x = 3 that run parallel to the axis OU, are the bounding lines of the figure on the left and right. Well y = 0, she is the x-axis, which limits the figure from below. The resulting figure is shaded, as seen in the figure on the left. In this case, you can immediately begin to solve the problem. Before us is a simple example of a curvilinear trapezoid, which we then solve using the Newton-Leibniz formula.

Example 2 . Calculate the area of a figure bounded by lines y=x2+6x+2, x=-4, x=-1, y=0.

In this example, we have a parabola y=x2+6x+2, which originates from under the axis OH, straight x=-4, x=-1, y=0. Here y = 0 limits the desired figure from above. Direct x = -4 and x = -1 these are the boundaries within which the definite integral will be calculated. The principle of solving the problem of finding the area of \u200b\u200ba figure almost completely coincides with example number 1. The only difference is that the given function is not positive, and everything is also continuous on the interval [-4; -1] . What does not positive mean? As can be seen from the figure, the figure that lies within the given x has exclusively "negative" coordinates, which is what we need to see and remember when solving the problem. We are looking for the area of \u200b\u200bthe figure using the Newton-Leibniz formula, only with a minus sign at the beginning.

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Schedule limited by lines online. Calculate the area of ​​a figure bounded by lines

Definite integral. How to calculate the area of ​​a figure

Schedule limited by lines online. Calculate the area of a figure bounded by lines

Definite integral. How to calculate the area of a figure