How to Find a Definite Integral using Riemann Sums and the Limit Definition: Quadratic Example

In this video we go through all the steps of evaluating a definite integral using the limit process. The example chosen for this video is a quadratic with three terms. We look at the definite integral of x^2 + 2x - 5 from 1 to 4. This is not the hardest example but it's also not the easiest. I hope this is helpful.
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The function you are integrating goes from negative to positive inside the interval of integration. Shouldn't you have split it in two parts around the zero point?

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To make sure you didn't make any mistakes with formulas, you can generalize the last part before taking the limit like this: Term with i squared: Resulting coefficient over 3. Term with i, first power: Resulting coefficient divided by 2 Term with no i: Same as the resulting coefficient from multiplying by ∆x So, you can think of it as dividing by 3, 2, and 1(or doing nothing) respectively! (But then of course you might have wanted to just integrate like normal to begin with then i suppose)

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