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Unit 8: Applications of Integration

Position, Velocity, and Acceleration Using Integrals

Use definite integrals of velocity and speed to find a moving particle's position, displacement and total distance, and integrate acceleration to get velocity.

Topic 8.2 · 7 min read

This lesson comes with the AP Calculus BC plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Displacement is the integral of velocity
  2. 02Total distance is the integral of speed
  3. 03Reading motion from a velocity graph
  4. 04Worked examples
  5. 05Where students lose points
  6. 06On the exam

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