Exercise · ZW-DOUBLE-INTEGRAL-004 · ★★☆ Intermediate

With the same partition of \(R=[0,2]\times[0,2]\) into four squares, compute the Riemann sum of \(f(x,y)=x+y\) taking the center of each square.

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  • A. \(8\)

Explanation

The centers are \((\tfrac12,\tfrac12)\), \((\tfrac32,\tfrac12)\), \((\tfrac12,\tfrac32)\), \((\tfrac32,\tfrac32)\), with values \(1,2,2,3\) (sum \(8\)) and \(\Delta A=1\). The result is \(8\), which equals the exact value of the integral because \(f\) is linear.

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The double integral of a function \(f\) over a region \(D\) of the plane is the limit of the sums of the values of \(f\) times the area \(\Delta A\) of ever finer cells covering \(D\).

\[\iint_D f(x,y)\,dA=\lim_{\max\Delta A_i\to0}\sum_i f(x_i^*,y_i^*)\,\Delta A_i\]

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