area under sine curve

Beautiful Proofs(#3): Area under a sine curve !

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So, I read this post on the the area of the sine curve some time ago and in the bottom was this equally amazing comment :

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\sum sin(\theta)d\theta =   Diameter of the circle/ The distance covered along the x axis starting from 0 and ending up at \pi.

And therefore by the same logic, it is extremely intuitive to see why:

\int\limits_{0}^{2\pi} sin/cos(x) dx = 0

Because if a dude starts at 0 and ends at 0/ 2\pi/ 4\pi \hdots, the effective distance that he covers is 0.

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If you still have trouble understanding, follow the blue point in the above gif and hopefully things become clearer.

 

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Why is the area under one hump of a sine curve exactly 2?

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Girls' Angle

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I was talking with a student recently who told me that he always found the fact that $latex int_0^{pi} sin x , dx = 2$ amazing. “How is it that the area under one hump of the sine curve comes out exactly 2?” He asked me if there is an easy way to see that, or is it something you just have to discover by doing the computation.

If you’ve wondered about this too, perhaps you’ll find the following of interest.

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