Integration Help: Struggling with Distance Qn

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The discussion revolves around integration techniques, specifically related to calculating distance and work from given expressions. Participants are seeking clarification on how to approach these integration problems, including the necessity of boundary conditions.

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  • Homework-related
  • Mathematical reasoning

Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses confusion about the lack of boundary conditions for a distance calculation and seeks help with integration.
  • Another participant suggests integrating the expression to find the distance function, providing a formula and indicating the need to determine a constant using given values.
  • A similar suggestion is made for a second question regarding work, with a proposed formula and the need to substitute values to find the constant.
  • Some participants repeat the integration steps and express gratitude for the assistance received, indicating a collaborative effort to understand the problems.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the approach to solving the integration problems, but there is no consensus on the specific boundary conditions or values needed for the calculations.

Contextual Notes

There is an assumption that the expressions provided in the questions are understood by all participants, but the lack of explicit boundary conditions remains a point of confusion for at least one participant.

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Students struggling with integration concepts, particularly in the context of physics or applied mathematics, may find this discussion helpful.

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I’ve always struggled with integration and I don’t know how to do this question, I’m not sure what I’m being asked to calculate. I tried to calculate this as a definite integral but there is no boundary conditions for the distance the object has traveled which is confusing any help would be appreciated thanks! ( it is the bottom question on the pic)
 

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I think you are asking for the first one so integrate the above whole expression and you will get $s= 10t^2 + 2/3 t^3 + c$ now calculate c by putting given values of s and t.
 
DaalChawal said:
I think you are asking for the first one so integrate the above whole expression and you will get $s= 10t^2 + 2/3 t^3 + c$ now calculate c by putting given values of s and t.
Thank you! this helped a lot, do u have any idea with the second question? I struggle with understanding integration any help is great thanks!
 
In the second question, you have to do exactly the same as the first one. Calculate Work it will come out to be $W= 2e^{2x} +c$ now put the values given you will get $W= 2e^{2x} + 6$
 
DaalChawal said:
In the second question, you have to do exactly the same as the first one. Calculate Work it will come out to be $W= 2e^{2x} +c$ now put the values given you will get $W= 2e^{2x} + 6$
Thank you so much! this really helped
 

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