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W303. Double Integrals

The document outlines key concepts and homework problems related to double integrals, including Riemann sums, density functions in 2D, and iterated integrals in both Cartesian and polar coordinates. It provides specific problems that require approximating population density, evaluating double integrals, and changing the order of integration. The document serves as a workshop worksheet for students to practice and understand double integrals in various contexts.
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W303. Double Integrals

The document outlines key concepts and homework problems related to double integrals, including Riemann sums, density functions in 2D, and iterated integrals in both Cartesian and polar coordinates. It provides specific problems that require approximating population density, evaluating double integrals, and changing the order of integration. The document serves as a workshop worksheet for students to practice and understand double integrals in various contexts.
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Weekly Workshop Worksheet 3: Double Integrals

Things you need to know this week:

• Remember how Riemann sums work, and how to calculate the density using integration when a
density function is given.

• Understand how to extend this idea for density in a 2D space.

• Intuitively understand how double integration works in Cartesian coordinates.

• Write an iterated double integral, and change the order of integration.

• Write a double integral in polar coordinates.

• Evaluate double integrals in both polar and Cartesian coordinates.

Homework Problems

1. A seaside village, Playa del Carmen, is in the shape of a rectangle with sides of 4 miles and 6 miles.
The sea lies along a 6-mile long side. People prefer to live near the water, so the density of people
is given by ρ(x) = 1000(20 − x2 ) people per square mile, where x is the distance from the seaside.(1)
Without using any calculus, how could you approximate the population of the village?
If you come up with a method, here are some questions about it:

• How accurate is your method? If you needed a quick approximation that didn’t require too
much computation, could you come up with one? (Try!) What if you needed a really good
approximation and were willing to spend a ton of time on computation?

• How flexible is your method? For example,


√ if it was discovered in the next census that the density
function ρ(x) had changed to 500(40 − x), would your method still work?

2. Every integral can be thought of as the result of


Z Za slice-approximate-sum-take a limit process. In this
problem, we’ll think about the double integral 1 dA in terms of this process.
R

(a) What’s being sliced?

(b) What’s being approximated?


ZZ
(c) What does the double integral 1 dA represent?
R

3. A city is shaped like the region R in R2 consisting of all points (x, y) with x2 + y 2 ≤ 4 and x ≥ 0, where
the axes are marked in miles. Suppose the population density at any point (x, y) in the city Z Z is given by
f (x, y) = 1000ex sin y people per square mile. In this problem, we’ll understand what f (x, y) dA
R
represents in this context.
(1) The symbol ρ is the Greek letter “rho” and is pronounced “row” (as in “Row, row, row your boat”).

1
ZZ
(a) The double integral f (x, y) dA can be thought of as the result of a slice-calculate-sum-take a
R
limit process. What’s being sliced, and how is it being sliced?

(b) On each slice, we calculate f (x, y)∆A for some point (x, y) in this slice. In this problem, what
does this tell us (approximately) about the slice? What are its units?

(c) If you sum these f (x, y)∆A values for every slice, what are you approximating?
ZZ
(d) What does f (x, y) dA represent? What are its units?
R

ZZ
4. Let R be the region bounded by y = x2 and y = 1. Write the double integral f (x, y) dA as an
R
iterated integral in both possible orders.
1

−1 1
ZZ
y2 x2
5. Let R be the region enclosed by 2 − 8 = −2 and y = ±6. Write the double integral f (x, y) dA
R
as an iterated integral. Which order is easier, and why?

−4 4

−6

6. In each part, you’re given an iterated integral. Change the order of integration. Whenever you change
the order of integration, please include a sketch of the region of integration.
Z 5 Z 2x−6
(a) f (x, y) dy dx
3 0
Z 1 Z e
(b) f (u, v) du dv
0 ev
Z 5 Z 6
(c) f (x, y) dx dy
1 3

Z 4 Z y
(d) f (x, y) dx dy where w is a constant between 1 and 4.
w 1

7. A village is in the shape of the region R in the first quadrant lying between the circles x2 + y 2 = 1 and
x2 + y 2 = 4; the axes are marked in miles. The population density at (x, y) is 150(x + y) people per
square mile. Find the population of the village.

2
y
2

x
1 2

8. Below are two iterated integrals in Cartesian coordinates. Rewrite one of them as an iterated integral
in polar coordinates. (Choose the easier one! What makes it easier?)
√ √
1 16−x2 2 16−x2
√ √
Z Z Z Z
√ x y dy dx √ x y dy dx
0 x 3 0 x 3

3
Quiz Problems
ZZ
1. Evaluate the integral DA where D is the region bounded by the curves y = x2 , y = x+2, y = −x.
D

2. Let R be the region in R2 that is the portion of x2 + y 2 ≤ 4 in the second quadrant.


ZZ
(a) Without calculating, is x3 y 3 dA positive, negative, or 0? How do you know?
R
ZZ
(b) Evaluate x3 y 3 dA.
R

3. A flat plate is in the shape of the region R defined by the inequalities x2 + y 2 ≤ 4, 0 ≤ y ≤ 1, x ≤ 0.


The density of the plate at the point (x, y) is −xy. Find the mass of the plate.

Z 1 Z √1−y2
4. Change the order of integration and evaluate the integral: √ y dxdy
−1 − 1−y 2

ZZ
5. The region D is shown in the following figure. Evaluate the double integral x2 + y DA by using
D
the easier order of integration.

ZZ
6. Evaluate the integral DA where D is the region bounded by the part of the four-leaved rose
D
r = sin(2θ) situated in the first quadrant (see the following figure).

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