Recent content by Frank89RM

Started with engineering calc 1st semester, had never seen trig before (only had done pre-calc part 1, which was only algebra concepts and barely passed with a C) so I had no idea what was going on so I dropped it (was going to fail), enrolled in calc for life sciences, still had trig in it and...

You definitely don't need to be a genius to get an A in calc 2. I barely got a C in pre-calc and failed calc 1 THREE times before passing it. I knew my math skills weren't up to par for Calc 2, so I voluntarily retook pre-calc to study up on algebra and trigonometry. I then studied up on calc 1...

Thank you for the help, I was under the impression that the given function was position-time, not realizing it was in fact velocity-time. This confused me because I knew summing the distances between the points of a position-time graph would give total distance traveled, and then I saw what I...

Here is the picture of the relevant problem from my book, perhaps I am misusing the term arc-length to describe the length of the curve. However, I am still stumped regardless.

Thank you for replying so quickly this late at night. Going by what you posted, calculating the length of a curve is a different computation than that of the area under the curve? Your computations make sense, but this directly contradicts what I have learned, for example my textbook gives a...

I learned in my calc 1 class that to calculate the arc length of a curve, we are to compute the integral of the function. For example, the integral of a function that describes the path of a thrown baseball would give the total distance traveled by the baseball (I hope I'm using the term arc...