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  1. Show the solution to question 1

    (a) Write out the terms. The sum runs over : that is terms, not . They are , , , , , and .

    By linearity. The power-sum formulas start at , so subtract the two missing terms:

    Then , agreeing with the direct count.

    (b) Expand, then split by linearity. , so

    The last term is , not : a constant summed times is counted times. Factor out :

    Check at : , and . (At the formula gives , also correct.)

    (c) Divide by and let .

    To see the integral, rewrite the summand: . With on , the point is the midpoint of the th subinterval, so the sum is the midpoint Riemann sum for , whose value is , as found.

  2. Show the solution to question 2

    (a) Set up the partition. , with partition points and function values .

    Left endpoints are the first four points, :

    Right endpoints are the last four, :

    Midpoints are , with values , , , . Their sum is , so

    Each sum has exactly four terms; using all five partition points would double-count a strip.

    (b) Monotonicity decides it. on , so is decreasing. On each subinterval the largest value of is at the left endpoint and the smallest at the right, so every left rectangle contains its strip of the region and every right rectangle sits inside it. Hence

    The gap is , and the single-strip formula gives : all the rectangles except the outermost ones cancel in the difference.

    (c) The limit of . With subintervals, and , so and

    As the parentheses tend to and , so .

    Sandwich: . The errors are , and . The midpoint sum is far closer than either endpoint sum, and it is a slight overestimate; the graph of is concave down, and the numerical-integration rules explain why midpoints overshoot on such a curve.

  3. Show the solution to question 3

    (a) Features of the drawing. The graph is a V with vertex , slope to the left of and slope to the right. Zeros: , so and . Endpoint values: , , and the vertex .

    So the graph runs from down through , dips below the axis to , climbs back through and up to . Three triangles are shaded: a small one above the axis on , a large one below the axis on with its apex at the vertex, and a medium one above on . Use two different shadings for above and below.

    (b) Triangles. Left triangle: legs and , area . Middle triangle: base (from to ), height , area . Right triangle: legs and , area .

    Net area counts the region below the axis negatively:

    Total area counts every region positively:

    They differ because changes sign on the interval, so the integral cancels the part below the axis against the parts above, while the total area adds them. Check of the net value by linearity: .

    (c) Reflect in the axis. , so its graph is the graph of reflected across the -axis: the same three triangles, with the middle one now above and the outer two below. By linearity with the constant ,

    while the total area is unchanged at , since .

  4. Show the solution to question 4

    (a) Velocity first. Velocity is an antiderivative of acceleration: . The condition gives , so and .

    Then position. . The condition gives , so :

    Check: , so ; ; and . The two conditions are given at different times, but each still removes exactly one constant, provided the velocity constant is fixed before the second antidifferentiation is done.

    (b) On . There , so , and gives . Check: and .

    The two-piece function. For , directly. For , , whose derivative is ; the constants differentiate to . So at every point of the domain , and is an antiderivative of there.

    Yet equals for and for : not a single constant. There is no contradiction, because the theorem is a statement about an interval. Its proof uses the corollary of the Mean Value Theorem that a function with zero derivative on an interval is constant, and that corollary needs the interval to connect any two points. The domain of is two disjoint intervals, and on each one separately is plus a constant, exactly as the theorem says. The formula really carries one constant per interval.

  5. Show the solution to question 5

    (a) The bounds property. On we have , so , and since the square root is increasing, . The integrand is continuous, so the integral exists by the integrability theorem, and the bounds property with , and gives

    (b) The inequality. For both sides are nonnegative, so it is enough to compare squares:

    and taking the (increasing) square root of both sides gives , with equality only at .

    The comparison property now applies to the two continuous functions on :

    the right-hand integral being evaluated by linearity and Part 2 of the Fundamental Theorem. So . (The true value is about .)

    (c) Proof. Suppose, for contradiction, that for some in . Apply continuity at with : there is such that , hence , for every in with .

    Put and . Then , its length is positive (even if is an endpoint, the interval has room on at least one side), and on all of .

    By additivity,

    The first and third integrals are by positivity, since (and they are if the interval is degenerate). By the bounds property with lower bound on , the middle one satisfies . Hence , contradicting the hypothesis. So for every , and together with this forces .

    The example. Let for and . This is bounded with a single jump, so it is integrable. Any Riemann sum has at most one nonzero term, the last, and only if the sample point is exactly ; the sum is therefore either or , and both tend to . So and , yet . The proof breaks at the very first step: without continuity there is no interval of positive length on which stays away from , and a single point has no width for the integral to see.

  6. Show the solution to question 6

    (a) Expand and divide through. For , , so

    The first two are power-rule entries; the third is the one power the power rule cannot handle, and it is the logarithm:

    where because the integrand lives on . Check: .

    (b) Split the fraction into table factors.

    which is a table entry: the integral is . Check: .

    (c) Divide out the polynomial part. Since ,

    Check: .

    (d) Divide by . . An antiderivative of is , since . Hence

    Alternatively, by definition of , and the table gives . The two agree because . Check: .

  7. Show the solution to question 7

    (a) Compute the integral, then solve for . is continuous on , so the theorem applies. By Part 2 of the Fundamental Theorem,

    The theorem asks for with , so and . This lies in , and it is the only solution because is one-to-one. The rectangle has base and height , so its area is , the same as the region under the curve; the curve passes through the top edge of the rectangle at . The height is the average value of on .

    (b) Proof. Let . It is continuous on as the difference of two continuous functions, and by linearity

    The Mean Value Theorem for integrals (hypothesis: continuous on the closed interval ) supplies in with , that is , that is .

    The number is exactly : the hypothesis says and the identity function have the same average on , and two continuous functions with the same average must cross.

    (c) A jump defeats the theorem. Take for and for . It is bounded with one jump, hence integrable, and by additivity and geometry (the second piece is a unit square). The theorem would need , so , but takes only the values and . No such exists.

    The proof uses continuity twice. First, the Extreme Value Theorem, to know that the minimum and maximum are values actually taken by . Second, and decisively, the Intermediate Value Theorem, to pass from \"the average lies between two values of \" to \"the average is a value of \". Here the average lies between the values and , and the jump lets step over it.

  8. Show the solution to question 8

    (a) The graph of . A horizontal segment at height on ; a straight segment from down to , crossing the axis at ; a horizontal segment at height on . The pieces join up, since and , so is continuous.

    Values of by area. . On a rectangle: . On a rectangle: . On a triangle above the axis with base and height , area : . On the mirror-image triangle below the axis, area , counted negatively: . On and rectangles of area below the axis: and .

    (b) Read off . Since is continuous on , Part 1 of the Fundamental Theorem gives . Now on and on , so is increasing on , decreasing on , and has its maximum at , where .

    Concavity comes from wherever exists: on and on , so is a straight line on each of those (slopes and ); and on , so is concave down there. Explicitly, on ; on ,

    a parabola with vertex at and ; and on , . The formulas agree at the joins: and .

    (c) The graph of . It starts at the origin and rises as a straight line of slope to ; continues as a downward-opening parabolic arc through the maximum to ; then descends as a straight line of slope through to . Draw the parabola tangent to the incoming line at and to the outgoing line at .

    There is no corner because the slope of is , and is continuous. At the line has slope and the parabola has slope ; at the parabola has slope and the line has slope . A corner in would require a jump in ; a change of formula is not a jump.

    Total area. . On the sketch of this is the sum of the two rectangles and the two triangles, regardless of side. On the sketch of it is the total climb plus the total descent: rises from to and then falls from back to , and . The net area, by contrast, is the final height .

  9. Show the solution to question 9

    (a) Displacement is ; distance is . By the net change theorem,

    For distance, find where changes sign: , which is positive on , negative on and positive on . With we have , , and , so the three pieces are

    Distance m. Check: the signed pieces add to , the displacement. The particle goes forward m, back m, forward m, and ends m from where it started having travelled m.

    (b) Volume is plus the integral of the rate. Let . By Part 1 of the Fundamental Theorem, , so is largest where changes from positive to negative. Now when , that is ; on and on . So the tank is fullest at minutes, and

    At ,

    Check by additivity: , and . The question asked for volumes, which are integrals of itself; the total amount of water that passed through the inlet, litres, would be the integral of .

  10. Show the solution to question 10

    (a) A -antiderivative evaluated at -limits. The substitution and the antiderivative are both correct. The wrong step is \"evaluating from to \": those are the -limits, and the expression is a function of . The theorem on substitution in definite integrals says the limits must be converted to -values, and , or else one must return to first. Mixing the two is the violation.

    The answer could have been rejected on sight: the integrand is on , so by positivity the integral cannot be negative.

    Correct evaluation, changing the limits:

    Or back-substitute: . Check by differentiating: .

    (b) Symmetry of the interval is only half the hypothesis. The theorem on even and odd functions needs a symmetric interval and an integrand of definite parity, and only an odd integrand gives . Here is neither even nor odd: at it is , at it is . The sentence \"integrals over symmetric intervals cancel\" is simply false; .

    Correct evaluation, splitting by linearity into the odd and even parts:

    so the integral is . Direct check: .

    (c) There is no product rule for integrals. The number is right, but the step is not a rule at all: linearity covers sums and constant multiples, nothing more. A counterexample on a different interval shows the step is unreliable: on , , while .

    Correct evaluation: substitute , ; the limits become and , so

    by the convention . Equivalently . The value is for a reason the bad argument never touched: is positive on and negative on , with the two humps congruent, so the net area cancels. The total area between the curve and the axis is .

  11. Show the solution to question 11

    (a) First proof, by substitution. Fix and write . Substitute , so ; the limits and become and . The theorem on substitution in definite integrals applies, since the inner function has continuous derivative and is continuous everywhere:

    using in the last step. So for every : is odd.

    Second proof, by differentiation. Let . By Part 1 of the Fundamental Theorem, for all , and by the chain rule , since is even. Therefore

    A function with zero derivative on an interval is constant (the corollary of the Mean Value Theorem), and the interval here is all of . Since (an integral from to is ), the constant is , so . The pair , is the model case.

    (b) Proof. Define . By additivity, . Both terms are differentiable by Part 1 of the Fundamental Theorem together with the chain rule (the corollary on variable limits), and

    by periodicity. So vanishes on the whole real line, and by the Mean Value Theorem corollary is constant: for every . In words, a window of one full period captures the same amount wherever it is placed.

    (c) Apply (b) with . The function is continuous and has period , since . By additivity, split into the three windows , and , each of length one period. By (b) each contributes , and on the sine is nonnegative, so

    Hence .

    Cross-check the hard way. The sign changes of inside are at , and . The pieces are , then on and on , and on the sine is negative, giving . The total is : the terms cancel, exactly as (b) predicts they must.

  12. Show the solution to question 12

    The exact value. .

    (a) Trapezoidal and midpoint. , endpoints with cubes :

    Midpoints have cubes , which sum to , so

    Errors: and .

    Predictions: on , so the graph is concave up. Chords lie above such a curve, so overestimates and its error should be negative; tangents lie below, so underestimates and its error should be positive. Both signs check. The sizes are against : the midpoint error is exactly half the trapezoidal error and of opposite sign, as predicted.

    (b) Simpson. With the coefficient pattern ,

    This is forced by the error bound: it involves , and for the fourth derivative is identically , so and . Simpson's Rule is exact for every polynomial of degree at most : one degree better than the parabolas it is built from, because the cubic part of the error cancels by symmetry about the midpoint of each pair of subintervals.

    The identity: with , , and . Then .

    (c) The bounds. on , so take ; also , and :

    The actual errors, and , are each half of their bound: safely inside, as they must be, and the bound is a guarantee rather than a prediction of the error.

    For general the trapezoidal bound is , and exactly when . Since and , the smallest that the bound certifies is .

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