Tuesday, March 23, 2010

On the Length of a Differentiable Curve

So for a function f on an interval (a,b) the length of the curve produced is given by:
\int_a^b \sqrt{f'(x)^2+1} \, dx


You can try it using f(x)=x and get 2^(1/2) x, how thrilling.

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