# Need help walking through evaulation of 30+5s

• February 6th 2013, 04:50 AM
johncassell
Need help walking through evaulation of 30+5s
Hi all, I'm very new to calculus and have been coping well so far but one thing has me stumped.

(30+5s)ds = 70 where s = 0 to 2

I've got the answer off a calculation website but I can't get my workings to reach this conclusion.

Heres what I have so far

30+(5s^2/2)
30+(5/2 x s^2)
subsituting with '2'
30+(5/2 x 2^2) = 40
substituting with '0'
30+(5/2 x 0^2) = 30

but I currently believe it is 2 minus 0 to get the result i.e 40 - 30

I'd like to just add the 2 results and get 70 but why am I adding instead of minusing?

Thanks in advance for any help at all.

John
• February 6th 2013, 05:30 AM
emakarov
Re: Need help walking through evaulation of 30+5s
How did you manage to ask this question without using the notation $\int$ or the word "integral"?

The antiderivative of 30 is 30s.
• February 6th 2013, 05:59 AM
johncassell
Re: Need help walking through evaulation of 30+5s
Thanks very much, understanding now.

And apologies for what must have seemed like a lazy question but I'm just getting to grips with the wording and I'm not sure how to enter the integral symbol but I'm going to give it a go...

\int

Hope that was right and thanks again for your help, really appreciate it.

John
• February 6th 2013, 06:00 AM
johncassell
Re: Need help walking through evaulation of 30+5s
ok - clearly that didn't work! Would you mind helping me out with the symbol for future use please?
• February 6th 2013, 06:08 AM
emakarov
Re: Need help walking through evaulation of 30+5s
This forum uses LaTeX language to enter formulas. See the LaTeX Help subforum for details. Wrap you LaTeX code in [TEX] ... [/TEX] tags (tags are not case sensitive). E.g., [TEX]\int x^2\,dx=\frac{x^3}{3}+C[/TEX] gives $\int x^2\,dx=\frac{x^3}{3}+C$. You can see the code in other people's posts if you click "Reply With Quote" button under the post. If you click "Go Advanced" button under your reply, you get a text area with a toolbar with many buttons on top. One of them has the $\Sigma$ sign; it wraps the TEX tags around the selected text.
• February 6th 2013, 06:17 AM
johncassell
Re: Need help walking through evaulation of 30+5s
$\int$

cheers