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1 5.5 Numerical Integration
Mt. Shasta, California Greg Kelly, Hanford High School, Richland, Washington Photo by Vickie Kelly, 1998

2 Using integrals to find area works extremely well as long as we can find the antiderivative of the function. Sometimes, the function is too complicated to find the antiderivative. At other times, we don’t even have a function, but only measurements taken from real life. What we need is an efficient method to estimate area when we can not find the antiderivative.

3 Actual area under curve:

4 Left-hand rectangular approximation:
Approximate area: (too low)

5 Right-hand rectangular approximation:
Approximate area: (too high)

6 Averaging the two: 1.25% error (too high)

7 Averaging right and left rectangles gives us trapezoids:

8 (still too high)

9 Trapezoidal Rule: ( h = width of subinterval )
This gives us a better approximation than either left or right rectangles.

10 Compare this with the Midpoint Rule:
Approximate area: 0.625% error (too low) The midpoint rule gives a closer approximation than the trapezoidal rule, but in the opposite direction.

11 Ahhh! Oooh! Wow! Trapezoidal Rule: 1.25% error (too high)
Midpoint Rule: (too low) 0.625% error Notice that the trapezoidal rule gives us an answer that has twice as much error as the midpoint rule, but in the opposite direction. Ahhh! If we use a weighted average: This is the exact answer! Oooh! Wow!

12 This weighted approximation gives us a closer approximation than the midpoint or trapezoidal rules.
twice midpoint trapezoidal

13 Simpson’s Rule: ( h = width of subinterval, n must be even ) Example:

14 Simpson’s rule can also be interpreted as fitting parabolas to sections of the curve, which is why this example came out exactly. Simpson’s rule will usually give a very good approximation with relatively few subintervals. It is especially useful when we have no equation and the data points are determined experimentally. p

15 Trapezoidal Rule: Simpson’s Rule: Your Turn!
( h = width of subinterval ) Simpson’s Rule: ( h = width of subinterval, n must be even ) Use the 2 rules above to estimate the integral to the right: Your Turn! Then determine the error of each method by comparing to the exact integral value calculated by the antiderivative.


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