Integration Check?

mammothrob

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Could someone please check this for me?

It's a take-home problem, which most of the time have a more unique answer than 0.

If it is really zero, is it because I'm going a full 2pi?



Thanks
Rob
 
For those of us with monitors on which the above causes horizontal scroll, the image displays something along these lines:

Evaluate the line integral:

\(\displaystyle \L \int_C\, y\, dx\, +\, z\, dy\, +\, x\, dz\, \mbox{ for }\, t\, \in \, \[0,\, 2\pi\]\)

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\(\displaystyle \L x\, =\, \sin{(t)}\, \mbox{ so } \, dx\, =\, \cos{(t)}\, dt\)

\(\displaystyle \L y\, =\, 2\sin{(t)}\, \mbox{ so }\, dy\, =\, 2\cos{(t)}\, dt\)

\(\displaystyle \L z\, =\, \sin^2{(t)}\, \mbox{ so }\, dz\, =\, 2\sin{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, dt\)

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\(\displaystyle \L \int_0^{2\pi}\, \left[\, 2\sin{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, dt\, +\, \sin^2{(t)}2\cos{(t)}\, dt\, +\, \sin{(t)}2\sin{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, dt\, \right]\)

\(\displaystyle \L \int_0^{2\pi}\, \left[\, 2\sin{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, +\, 2\sin^2{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, +\, 2\sin^2{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, \right]\, dt\)

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\(\displaystyle \L \underbrace{\int_0^{2\pi}\, \left[ \, 2\sin{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, \right]}_{\mbox{I}} \, dt\, +\, \underbrace{\int_0^{2\pi}\, \left[\, 2\sin^2{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, \right]}_{\mbox{II}}\, dt\, +\, \underbrace{\int_0^{2\pi}\, \left[\, 2\sin^2{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, \right]\, dt}_{\mbox{III}}\)

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integral I:

\(\displaystyle \L \int_0^{2\pi}\, \left[ \, 2\sin{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, \right]\, =\, 2\, \int_0^{2\pi}\, \sin{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, dt\,\)

\(\displaystyle \L =\, 2\int_a^b\, u\, du\, =\, 2\, \left[\frac{u^2}{2}\right]\, =\, u^2\, |_a^b\, =\, \sin^2{(t)}\,|_0^{2\pi}\, =\, 0\)

(using the substitution "u = sin(t)", so du = cos(t) dt)

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integrals II and III:

\(\displaystyle \L \int_0^{2\pi}\, \left[\, 2\sin^2{(t)}\cos{(t)}\, \right]\, =\, 2\, \int_a^b\, u^2\, du\, =\, 0\)

(using the substitution "u = sin(t)", so du = cos(t) dt.)

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Parts I, II, and III all equal zero, so the sum (the entire integral) must be zero.

Is this correct?
 
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