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Series: Calculus: Improper Integrals

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  • Lessons: 3
  • Total Time: 0h 29m
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  • Created At: 07/29/2009
  • Last Updated At: 07/20/2010

In this three-lesson series, we'll learn about improper integrals. An improper integral is a definite integral with one of the following properties: the integration takes place over an infinite interval or the integrand is undefined at a point within the interval of integration. For this second type of improper integral, the function is not continuous on the integration interval, so the standard procedure will not work. Instead, you'll use the discontinuity as an endpoint for the integral.

With some improper integrals, the area of the region under the curve is finite even though the region extends to infinity. An improper integral that is infinite diverges. An improper integral that equals a numerical value converges.

Formalizing the idea of improper integrals involves replacing the infinite endpoint with a parameter whose limit approaches either infinity or the discontinuity. In addition to formalizing the idea of improper integrals over an infinite interval, we'll also consider how to formalize the idea of an improper integral that covers a discontinuity.

Taught by Professor Edward Burger, this series comes from a comprehensive Calculus course. This course and others are available from Thinkwell, Inc. The full course can be found at http://www.thinkwell.com/student/product/calculus. The full course covers limits, derivatives, implicit differentiation, integration or antidifferentiation, L'Hopital's Rule, functions and their inverses, improper integrals, integral calculus, differential calculus, sequences, series, differential equations, parametric equations, polar coordinates, vector calculus and a variety of other AP Calculus, College Calculus and Calculus II topics.

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