Lesson Plan: Arc Length by Integration Mathematics • Higher Education
This lesson plan includes the objectives and prerequisites of the lesson teaching students how to use integration to find the length of a curve.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- find the arc length of a curve defined by using integration,
- find the arc length of a curve defined by using integration,
- define the arc length function , measuring the arc length from a point a to a point .
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- differentiation and integration of polynomial and trigonometric functions,
- integration by substitution.