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Proof
of Various Integral Facts/Formulas/Properties
In this section we’ve got the proof of several of the
properties we saw in the Integrals Chapter as
well as a couple from the Applications of Integrals
Chapter.

Proof of :
 where k
is any number.

Proof of :


Proof of :

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From the definition of the definite integral we have,

and we also
have,

Therefore,


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Proof of :

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From the definition of the definite integral we have,


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Proof of :

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From the definition of the definite integral we have,

Remember that
we can pull constants out of summations and out of limits.

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Proof of :

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First we’ll prove the formula for “+”. From the definition of the definite
integral we have,

To prove the
formula for “-” we can either redo the above work with a minus sign instead
of a plus sign or we can use the fact that we now know this is true with a
plus and using the properties proved above as follows.


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Proof of :
 ,
c is any number.
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If we define  then from the definition of the definite
integral we have,


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Proof of :
If  for  then  .
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From the definition of the definite integral we have,

Now, by
assumption  and we also have  and so we know that

So, from the
basic properties of limits we then have,

But the left
side is exactly the definition of the integral and so we have,


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Proof of :
If  for  then  .
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Since we have  then we know that  on  and so by Property 8 proved above we know that,

We also know
from Property 4 that,

So, we then
have,


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Proof of :
If  for  then  .
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Give  we can use Property 9 on each inequality to
write,

Then by
Property 7 on the left and right integral to get,


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Proof of :

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First let’s
note that we can say the following about the function and the absolute value,

If we now use
Property 9 on each inequality we get,

We know that we
can factor the minus sign out of the left integral to get,

Finally, recall
that if  then  and of course this works in reverse as well
so we then must have,


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Fundamental
Theorem of Calculus, Part I
Proof
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Suppose that x and  are in  . We then have,

Now, using Property 5 of the
Integral Properties we can rewrite the first integral and then do a little
simplification as follows.

Finally assume
that  and we get,
 (1)
Let’s now
assume that  and since we are still assuming that  are in  we know that
 is continuous on  and so by the Extreme
Value Theorem we know that there are numbers c and d in  so that  is the absolute minimum of  in  and that  is the absolute maximum of  in  .
So, by Property 10 of the
Integral Properties we then know that we have,

Or,

Now divide both sides of this by h to get,

and then use (1)
to get,
 (2)
Next, if  we can go through the same argument above
except we’ll be working on  to arrive at exactly the same inequality above. In other words, (2)
is true provided  .
Now, if we take  we also have  and  because both c and d are between x and  . This means that we have the following two
limits.

The Squeeze Theorem then
tells us that,
 (3)
but the left
side of this is exactly the definition of the derivative of  and so we get that,

So, we’ve shown
that  is differentiable on  .
Now, the Theorem
at the end of the Definition of the Derivative section tells us that  is also continuous on  . Finally, if we take  or  we can go through a similar argument we used
to get (3)
using one-sided limits to get the same result and so the theorem at the end
of the Definition of the Derivative section will also tell us that  is continuous at  or  and so in fact  is also continuous on  .

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Fundamental
Theorem of Calculus, Part II
Proof

Average Function
Value
Proof
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We know that
the average value of n numbers is
simply the sum of all the numbers divided by n so let’s start off with that.
Let’s take the interval [a,b] and divide it into n subintervals each of length,

Now from each
of these intervals choose the points  and note that it doesn’t really matter how
we choose each of these numbers as long as they come from the appropriate
interval. We can then compute the
average of the function values  by computing,
 (4)
Now, from our
definition of  we can get the following formula for n.

and we can plug this into (4)
to get,

Let’s now increase
n.
Doing this will mean that we’re taking the average of more and more
function values in the interval and so the larger we chose n the better this will approximate the
average value of the function.
If we then take
the limit as n goes to infinity we
should get the average function value.
Or,

We can factor
the  out of the limit as we’ve done and now the
limit of the sum should look familiar as that is the definition of the
definite integral. So, putting in
definite integral we get the formula that we were after.


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The Mean Value
Theorem for Integrals
Proof
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Let’s start off
by defining,

Since  is continuous we know from the Fundamental Theorem of
Calculus, Part I that  is continuous on [a,b], differentiable on
(a,b) and that  .
Now, from the Mean Value Theorem we know that there is
a number c such that  and that,

However we know
that  and,

So, we then
have,


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Work
Proof
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