Introduction to Integration

This Khan Academy video introduces the integral as the limit of Riemann sums used to approximate the area under a curve.

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These notes from MathCentre give a geometric description of integration as the limit of a summation used to compute the area under a curve.

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This NUMBAS exercise asks you to compute Riemann sums of a quadratic function.

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This video from Firefly Lectures gives a comprehensive list of the fundamental rules of integration.

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These notes from MathCentre go through the most common rules you will need when working on integration problems.

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This NUMBAS exercise lets you practise what you’ve learned about the rules of integration.

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This video from Khan Academy discusses the idea and notation behind the definite integral.

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This video from Firefly Lectures gives an introductory example of computing a definite integral.

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This video from Khan Academy shows how to compute the area under the curve using definite integrals.

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These notes from MathCentre discuss the notation for indefinite integrals and give some examples of how they are computed.

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You can use these NUMBAS exercises to practise working with various definite integration problems.

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This video from Khan Academy explains how the first part of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus connects integration and differentiation, then shows how it can be used to compute the derivative of complex definite integrals.

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This video from Firefly Lectures shows how to use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to compute derivatives of complex integral expressions. Note: What is referred to in this video as the Second Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is generally known in Ireland as the First (Part of the) Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

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This video from MIT OpenCourseWare shows how to compute integrals where the upper limit is a function of $x$ using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

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This video from patrickJMT discusses the second part of Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and how it is used to compute definite integrals.

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These notes from MathCentre discuss the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and how it relates differentiation and integration. The two parts of the statement of the theorem are given in the key points of the notes.

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