Arc Length | Calculus 2 Lesson 6 - JK Math

How to Calculate Arc Length Using Definite Integrals (Calculus 2 Lesson 6)
In this video we look at how to use definite integrals to calculate the arc length of curves with respect to x and with respect to y. The process is similar to calculating the distance between two point or the length of line segments in algebra with the distance formula, except this concept is extended to a calculus setting.
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Determining the Arc Length Formula
6:56 The Arc Length Formula
7:43 Example 1 - f(x)=2x+1 from x=0 to x=3
10:14 Example 2 - g(y)=2/3(y-1)^(3/2) from y=1 to y=9
15:48 Example 3 - y=(3/2)x^(2/3) over [0,8]
27:02 Outro
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[@AllanPoeLover]

講解得好清楚 讚 !

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[@malldvd]

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[@Wunjogenius]

holy shit, this is a way shorter explaination for the formula than the professor leonard's one. thanks

[@Tivnanmath]

I got a bit uneasy on the last example b/c you left the lower and upper limits as the x values 0 and 8 when you expressed the integral in terms of u. I thought you were going to plug those in, but then you changed it all back in terms of x and it was worked out. I tell students to write x=0 and x=8 if they choose to go back to the x world. I find it a bit easier to to use u=1 and u=5 to evaluate the integral. No harm no foul though, but it does lead to confusion when x and u appear in the same integral.

[@JKMath]

Thanks for the feedback! My go-to strategy is to always go back in terms of x, so that is the method I chose to show. However I do agree that writing the limits as x=0 and x=8 is the better approach. And although I do show that step in my video on u-sub for calc 1, I did leave it out in this video which was not focused on u-sub. I never want to confuse anyone, so I will be sure to make that step more clear in future recordings. Thanks again!

[@malekabbr]

No he was right at last he substituted u with what it was but also using u as 1 and 5 is also true