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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by woopwoop on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:53PM (#17043280)
What is the straightforward "area under the curve" definition of a line integral?
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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by fooker on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:55PM (#17043292)
Wikipedia has a nice animation for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_integral#/media/File:Line...

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by woopwoop on Thursday May 10, 2018 @06:11PM (#17043385)
Okay. I am used to this being called a path integral, and the phrase line integral being reserved for the integral of a vector field over a curve. This does not, as far as I know, admit a straightforward definition as an area under a curve.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by fooker on Thursday May 10, 2018 @06:17PM (#17043426)
If you replace area under curve with volume under surface, it seems to me that the same intuition holds.
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