Further Integration (Cambridge (CIE) AS Maths: Pure 2): Exam Questions

Traffic is monitored by three average speed cameras along a stretch of road where the speed limit is 30 mph.

A car passes the first camera at time zero. The car's speed, and the time at which it passes each camera, are recorded in the table below.

Use the trapezium rule with all the data in the table to find an approximation to the distance between the first and last camera.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Determine whether the car is driving within the speed limit, showing clearly how the answer is obtained.

Given that

$\text{cos}2\theta \equiv 2 {\text{cos}}^2\theta -1$

find the exact value of

${\int }_{\frac{1}{4}\pi }^{\frac{1}{2}\pi }{\text{cos}}^2\theta \text{d}\theta$

Use the identity

$\text{sin}2A\equiv 2 \text{sin}A \text{cos}A$

to show that

$4 \text{sin}\frac{\theta }{2} \text{cos}\frac{\theta }{2}\equiv 2 \text{sin}\theta$

Hence, or otherwise, find the integral

$\int 4 \text{sin}\frac{\theta }{2} \text{cos}\frac{\theta }{2} \text{d}\theta$

The diagram shows the graph of $y=\sqrt{e^{-x}+2x}$.

The shaded area is to be approximated using the trapezium rule with $h=1$.

(i) Write down the number of intervals to be used.

(ii) Write down the number of ordinates to be used.

Use the trapezium rule as described above to find an approximation to the shaded area, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Describe one way in which the approximation found in part (b) could be improved.

The energy company PowerX operates a wind turbine.

Engineers model the power output, $P$ kW, of the turbine over a twelve-hour period by

$P\left(t\right)=50+10 \text{sin}\left(\sqrt{10t}\right),0\le t\le 12$

where $t$ is the time in hours. The graph of $P$ against $t$ is shown below.

Use the trapezium rule with six intervals of width 1 to find an approximation to the total energy generated by the turbine in the first six hours. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

You may use the table below to help.

Briefly explain why it is difficult for the engineers to determine whether the answer to part (a) is an over-estimate or an under-estimate.

Coronation Street has a speed limit of 40 mph, and traffic is monitored along one stretch of the road by four average speed cameras.

Vera is driving her car along Coronation Street and passes the first camera at time zero. Vera's speed, measured in miles per hour, and the time at which she passes each camera, are recorded in the table below.

Use the trapezium rule with all the data in the table to find an approximation to the distance between the first and last camera.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Vera's car uses fuel at a rate of 52.6 miles per gallon.

Find an approximation to the amount of fuel, in gallons, that the car uses between the first and last camera, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

The diagram shows part of the graph of $y=3x-e^{x^2}$.

Use the trapezium rule with five intervals to find an approximation to the shaded area, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

The diagram shows the graph of $y=4-2x^{\text{ln}x}$ for $x>0$.

Use the trapezium rule with five intervals to find an approximation to

${\int }_1^2\left(4-2x^{\text{ln}x}\right)dx$

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Using the integration feature on your calculator, find the value of

${\int }_1^2\left(4-2x^{\text{ln}x}\right)dx$

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Assuming the calculator gives the exact value of the integral, find the percentage error in the approximation from part (a).

The diagram shows a sketch of the graph of $y=x{\left(x-6\right)}^2$ for $x\ge 0$.

The graph has a local maximum point at $\left(2,32\right)$, as indicated on the diagram.

Use the trapezium rule with 5 ordinates to find an approximation to the shaded area.

The XnValdez container ship was carrying 4000 tonnes of crude oil when it ran aground and oil began leaking from its hull into the ocean. It took 36 days for experts to stop the leak.

During that time the rate at which oil leaked, measured in tonnes per day, was recorded every 4 days. The results are shown below.

An environmental disaster is declared if the total amount of crude oil leaking into the ocean exceeds 2500 tonnes.

Use all the data in the table to determine whether environmentalists were right to declare the XnValdez incident an environmental disaster.

Find

$\int 5\left({\text{e}}^{5x}-{\text{e}}^{-5x}\right)\text{d}x$

Find an expression for $y$ given that

$y=\int \left(\text{sin}x+\text{cos}x\right)\text{d}x$

Evaluate

${\int }_{-8}^{-2}\frac{1}{x} \text{d}x$

giving your answer as a single logarithm.

Find

$\int 2 \text{sin}x \text{cos}x \text{d}x$

Find the value of

${\int }_1^3(4x+1{)}^5 \text{d}x$

Show that

${\text{sin}}^2(3x+2)\equiv \frac{1}{2}\left(1-\text{cos}(6x+4)\right)$

Hence, or otherwise, find an expression for

$\int {\text{sin}}^2(3x+2) \text{d}x$

Write ${\text{e}}^{2x}\left(1+{\text{e}}^{2x}+{\text{e}}^2\right)$ in the form ${\text{e}}^{\text{f}\left(x\right)}+{\text{e}}^{\text{g}\left(x\right)}+{\text{e}}^{\text{h}\left(x\right)}$, where $\text{f}\left(x\right)$, $\text{g}\left(x\right)$ and $\text{h}\left(x\right)$ are all linear functions of $x$.

Hence show that

${\int }_0^1{\text{e}}^{2x}\left(1+{\text{e}}^{2x}+{\text{e}}^2\right)\text{d}x=\frac{3}{4}\left({\text{e}}^4-1\right)$

Show that

${\int }_0^1{\text{e}}^{ax+b} \text{d}x={\text{e}}^b\left(\frac{{\text{e}}^a-1}{a}\right)$

where $a$ and $b$ are constants, and $a\ne 0$.

Using your working from part (a), or otherwise, evaluate

${\int }_0^c{\text{e}}^{ax+b} \text{d}x$

giving your answer in terms of $a$, $b$ and $c$, where $a$, $b$ and $c$ are constants, and $a\ne 0$.

Show that, for $\theta \ne k\pi$ (where $k$ is an integer),

$\frac{2-2 {\text{cos}}^2\theta }{\text{sin}2\theta }=\text{tan}\theta$

Hence show that

${\int }_{\frac{1}{6}\pi }^{\frac{1}{3}\pi }\frac{2-2 {\text{cos}}^2\theta }{\text{sin}2\theta } \text{d}\theta =\frac{1}{2} \text{ln}3$

Find the exact value of

${\int }_{\frac{1}{2}\pi }^{\frac{5}{6}\pi }\frac{2 \text{cos}x}{1-\text{cos}2x} \text{d}x$

Use two separate diagrams to show how the trapezium rule can give an under-estimate or an over-estimate of the area under a curve.

Use the trapezium rule with four intervals to find an approximation to the area bounded by the curve $y=1+0.3x^2 \text{sin} x$, the lines $x=1$ and $x=2$, and the $x$-axis.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Finding the exact value of the integral

${\int }_1^2\left(1+0.3x^2 \text{sin} x\right)dx$

requires a method of integration beyond this syllabus.

Suggest a reason why it may be preferable to use a numerical method, such as the trapezium rule, to approximate the value of the integral.

The energy company PowerY owns and maintains a wind farm.

Engineers model the power output, $P$ kW, of a single turbine over a twelve-hour period by

$P\left(t\right)=50+30e^{-0.1t} \text{sin} t,0\le t\le 12$

where $t$ is the time in hours. The graph of $P$ against $t$ is shown below.

Use the trapezium rule with 5 ordinates to find an approximation to the total energy generated by the turbine in the last four hours of the twelve-hour period.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Find an approximation to the average amount of energy generated per minute by the turbine during these last four hours, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

The drilling rig AlphaBeta began leaking oil into the North Sea following a technical fault. It took 14 hours for engineers to trace and repair the fault.

During that time the rate at which oil leaked, measured in tonnes per hour, was recorded every 2 hours. The results are shown below.

For safety reasons, a rig must shut down and stop all operations until an inspection is carried out if the total amount of oil leaked during an incident exceeds 250 tonnes.

Use all the data in the table to determine whether the AlphaBeta rig should be shut down.

Explain why using the trapezium rule to approximate the total amount of oil leaked in the first 10 hours would give an over-estimate.

A stretch of road along Equality Street has a speed limit of 70 mph, and traffic along it is monitored by six average speed cameras.

Ricky is driving his car along Equality Street and passes the first camera at time zero. Ricky's speed, measured in miles per hour, and the time at which he passes each camera, are recorded in the table below.

Use all the data in the table to find an approximation to the distance between the first and last camera, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

A driver receives a speeding ticket if their average speed between the first and last camera exceeds the speed limit.

Determine whether Ricky should receive a speeding ticket, justifying your answer.

The energy company PowerSquared owns and maintains a wind farm.

Engineers model the power output, $P$ kW, of a single turbine by

$P\left(t\right)=60+5e^{0.7\sqrt{t}} \text{sin} t,0\le t\le 12$

where $t$ is the number of hours after 6pm. The graph of $P$ against $t$ is shown below.

Use the trapezium rule with four intervals to find an approximation to the total energy generated by this turbine between midnight and 4am.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Once every twelve hours, each turbine is switched off for half an hour for maintenance and safety checks.

Suggest, with a reason, at what time between 6pm and 6am these checks should be carried out on the turbine modelled above.

A stretch of road along Baker Street has a speed limit of 60 mph, and traffic along it is monitored by eight average speed cameras.

Sherlock is driving along Baker Street and passes the first camera at time zero. Sherlock's speed, measured in miles per hour, and the time at which he passes each camera, are recorded in the table below.

(i) Suggest a reason why the last camera did not record any data for Sherlock's journey.

(ii) Suggest a reason why there was a longer time gap between the sixth and seventh cameras.

Use the results in the table to find an approximation to the distance between the first and sixth cameras, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Briefly explain why it would not be suitable to use the trapezium rule to approximate the distance between the first and seventh cameras.

Find the value of

${\int }_2^6\left(\frac{1}{x}+\frac{4}{2x}+\frac{3}{3x-2}\right)\text{d}x$

giving your answer in the form $p \text{ln}p+q \text{ln}q$, where $p$ and $q$ are prime numbers to be found.

Find an expression for $y$ given that

$\frac{\text{d}y}{\text{d}x}=5 {\text{cos}}^{2}4x \text{sin}4x$

Find

$\int 3x{\left(5x^2+4\right)}^4 \text{d}x$

Show that

$\left(\text{cos}\left(\theta +\frac{\pi }{8}\right)+\text{sin}\left(\theta +\frac{\pi }{8}\right)\right)\left(\text{sin}\left(\theta +\frac{\pi }{8}\right)-\text{cos}\left(\theta +\frac{\pi }{8}\right)\right)\equiv -\text{cos}\left(2\theta +\frac{\pi }{4}\right)$

Hence, or otherwise, find the exact value of

${\int }_0^{\frac{1}{8}\pi }\left({\text{sin}}^2\left(\theta +\frac{\pi }{8}\right)-{\text{cos}}^2\left(\theta +\frac{\pi }{8}\right)\right)\text{d}\theta$

Find

$\int {\left(2 \text{tan}x+3 \text{sec}x\right)}^2\text{d}x$

Show that

$\left(1+\text{cot}\left(2\theta +\frac{\pi }{4}\right)\right)\left(1-\text{cot}\left(2\theta +\frac{\pi }{4}\right)\right)\equiv 2-{\text{cosec}}^2\left(2\theta +\frac{\pi }{4}\right)$

Hence, or otherwise, find an expression for $\text{f}\left(\theta \right)$ given that

$\text{f}\text{'}\left(\theta \right)=\left(2+2 \text{cot}\left(2\theta +\frac{\pi }{4}\right)\right)\left(2-2 \text{cot}\left(2\theta +\frac{\pi }{4}\right)\right)$