The Fundamental Theory of Calculus part 2 (part i)
OK, now we come onto the part of the FTC that you are going to use most. We are finally going to show the direct link between the definite integral and the antiderivative. I know that you’ve been holding your breaths until this moment. Get ready to breath a sign of relief:
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Part 2 (also known as the Evaluation Theorem)
If is continuous on
then
where is any antiderivative of
. Ie any function such that
.
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This means that, very excitingly, now to calculate the area under the curve of a continuous function we no longer have to do any ghastly Riemann sums. We just have to find an antiderivative!
OK, let’s prove this one straight away.
We’ll define:
and we know from the FTC part 1 how to take derivatives of this. It’s just . This says that
is an antiderivative of
.…