6: Intuition for Integration
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- 6.2: Numeric Integration Techniques
- This process of finding the area underneath a curve is used for a lot more than finding how much dirt needs to be hauled away — in fact, it’s vital to many physics, engineering problems, and it even crops up in environmental science and biology problems. Let’s do some more examples to get a feel for how it works, and to introduce the notation for it.