The Arc Length of a Vector Function

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Uploaded by on Jul 17, 2009

The Arc Length of a Vector Function - In this video I give the formula to find the arc length of a 3-dimensional vector function and do one concrete example of finding the length of a vector function.
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  • MORE MULTIVARIABLE VIDEOSSS !!!!

  • Please some help here. I have 30 exercices this hard:

    Arc lenght of:

    (3cos(2t), 3sin(2t), 3t) [0.1]

    Can you please help me?

    The best I can do is get to a monstrous radical which i have to integrate trough wolframalpha.

  • (3cos (2t), 3sin (2t), 3t) [0.1]

  • dfdfs

  • Great explanation as always!

    I'm glad you finally decided to switch to a whiteboard - It killed me to see you throw away 3 unused printer papers because of marker-bleed stains.

  • @24Kolben

    ^^That is a true statement, a true statement indeed.

  • thanks for saving my ass.....again!

  • Taking an integral of that involved integration by parts.

    I came up with 12 as the solution. Unless I made a mistake somewhere :-(.

  • @bawangrebus,

    For a non-parametrioc function on the form of y = f(x), the arc length is calculated by taking an integral from a to b over sqrt(1+(f' (x)^2)) (That's f'(x) = f prime sub x = drivative of f(x) in there).

    In your case, where it's x = f(y), the arc length is calculated by taking an integral from a to b over sqrt(1+(f' (y)^2)).

    I tried this problem and got f'(y) (f prime (y)) = (y-1) / (2*sqrt(y)).

    sqrt(1+(f' (y)^2)) = (y+1) / (2*sqrt(y)).

    (cont.)

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