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Why do I get two different answers when solving for arclength?

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I am given that $fracdxdt=8tcos(t)$ and $fracdydt=8tsin(t)$. I tried solving for the arclength from $t=0$ to $t=1.$

Method 1:
$$textArclength = int_0^1 sqrtleft(fracdxdtright)^2+left(fracdydtright)^2 dx = 4.$$

Method 2:

$$textArclength = int_0^1 sqrt1+left(fracdydxright)^2 dx.$$ However, when I solve using method 2, I get $1.22619,$ when the answer should be $4.$ What is causing this difference?

integration arc-length

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  About your second method: Can you tell us under what conditions it is guaranteed to work? [You can click "edit" below your question to add your answer to this question.] Also: exactly how did you compute $dy/dx$?
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  A previous edit corrected the $dx$ in the first formula to $dt$ (among many other changes, mostly unnecessary). This error is a significant part of the question, so I restored it. The appropriate way to deal with an error like this is to inform the OP about it in an answer (as someone did) rather than stealthily "fixing" the problem.
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  Why is it a significant part of the question? It is not, if OP had integrated the first formulare w.r.t. to $x$, then his result would depend on $t$.
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I am given that $fracdxdt=8tcos(t)$ and $fracdydt=8tsin(t)$. I tried solving for the arclength from $t=0$ to $t=1.$

Method 1:
$$textArclength = int_0^1 sqrtleft(fracdxdtright)^2+left(fracdydtright)^2 dx = 4.$$

Method 2:

$$textArclength = int_0^1 sqrt1+left(fracdydxright)^2 dx.$$ However, when I solve using method 2, I get $1.22619,$ when the answer should be $4.$ What is causing this difference?

integration arc-length

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edited May 13 at 10:43

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  About your second method: Can you tell us under what conditions it is guaranteed to work? [You can click "edit" below your question to add your answer to this question.] Also: exactly how did you compute $dy/dx$?
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  May 13 at 1:39
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  Your expressions are equally. The problem is likely to be with your steps. Edit your question to show how you solve each of them
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  The interval $t=0$ to $1$ does not correspond to the interval $x=0$ to $1$.
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  May 13 at 1:40
  

  
  
  
  


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  A previous edit corrected the $dx$ in the first formula to $dt$ (among many other changes, mostly unnecessary). This error is a significant part of the question, so I restored it. The appropriate way to deal with an error like this is to inform the OP about it in an answer (as someone did) rather than stealthily "fixing" the problem.
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  Why is it a significant part of the question? It is not, if OP had integrated the first formulare w.r.t. to $x$, then his result would depend on $t$.
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I am given that $fracdxdt=8tcos(t)$ and $fracdydt=8tsin(t)$. I tried solving for the arclength from $t=0$ to $t=1.$

Method 1:
$$textArclength = int_0^1 sqrtleft(fracdxdtright)^2+left(fracdydtright)^2 dx = 4.$$

Method 2:

$$textArclength = int_0^1 sqrt1+left(fracdydxright)^2 dx.$$ However, when I solve using method 2, I get $1.22619,$ when the answer should be $4.$ What is causing this difference?

integration arc-length

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Your second formula applies when you see $y$ as a function of $x$; you don't say how you found $dy/dx$.

Playing a bit loose with differentials, we have
$$
fracdydx=fracfracdydtfracdxdt=frac8tsin t8tcos t=tan t.
$$
Then
$$
sqrt1+left(fracdydx right)^2,dx=sqrt1+tan ^2 t ,dx=frac1cos t,dx
=frac1cos t,8t,cos t,dt=8t,dt.
$$
So your second integral is (now the limits are on $t$, note that we don't easily know the limits on $x$)
$$
int_0^18t,dt = 4.
$$

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Your first method requires a change. (It is $dt$ not $dx$)

$$I = int^1_0 sqrt(fracdxdt)^2 + (fracdydt)^2dt = int^1_0 sqrt(8t)^2(cos^2t + sin^2t)dt =int^1_0 8tdt = 4[t^2]^1_0 = 4$$

Now, for the 2nd method.

It is actually an equivalence of the first one. It can be deduced like this.

$$int sqrt(fracdxdt)^2 + (fracdydt)^2dt = int fracdxdtsqrt1 + frac(fracdydt)^2(fracdxdt)^2dt = intsqrt1+(fracdydx)^2dx$$

So, the second method also yields 4.

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The second method should give you the correct answer as well.

Note that $$ sqrt1+(fracdydx)^2 dx =sqrt 1+tan^2(t)(8tcos(t))dt$$

so the arc length is $$int _0^1 sqrt 1+tan^2(t)(8tcos(t))dt = int _0^1 8tdt=4$$

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Your second formula applies when you see $y$ as a function of $x$; you don't say how you found $dy/dx$.

Playing a bit loose with differentials, we have
$$
fracdydx=fracfracdydtfracdxdt=frac8tsin t8tcos t=tan t.
$$
Then
$$
sqrt1+left(fracdydx right)^2,dx=sqrt1+tan ^2 t ,dx=frac1cos t,dx
=frac1cos t,8t,cos t,dt=8t,dt.
$$
So your second integral is (now the limits are on $t$, note that we don't easily know the limits on $x$)
$$
int_0^18t,dt = 4.
$$

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Your second formula applies when you see $y$ as a function of $x$; you don't say how you found $dy/dx$.

Playing a bit loose with differentials, we have
$$
fracdydx=fracfracdydtfracdxdt=frac8tsin t8tcos t=tan t.
$$
Then
$$
sqrt1+left(fracdydx right)^2,dx=sqrt1+tan ^2 t ,dx=frac1cos t,dx
=frac1cos t,8t,cos t,dt=8t,dt.
$$
So your second integral is (now the limits are on $t$, note that we don't easily know the limits on $x$)
$$
int_0^18t,dt = 4.
$$

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Your second formula applies when you see $y$ as a function of $x$; you don't say how you found $dy/dx$.

Playing a bit loose with differentials, we have
$$
fracdydx=fracfracdydtfracdxdt=frac8tsin t8tcos t=tan t.
$$
Then
$$
sqrt1+left(fracdydx right)^2,dx=sqrt1+tan ^2 t ,dx=frac1cos t,dx
=frac1cos t,8t,cos t,dt=8t,dt.
$$
So your second integral is (now the limits are on $t$, note that we don't easily know the limits on $x$)
$$
int_0^18t,dt = 4.
$$

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Your first method requires a change. (It is $dt$ not $dx$)

$$I = int^1_0 sqrt(fracdxdt)^2 + (fracdydt)^2dt = int^1_0 sqrt(8t)^2(cos^2t + sin^2t)dt =int^1_0 8tdt = 4[t^2]^1_0 = 4$$

Now, for the 2nd method.

It is actually an equivalence of the first one. It can be deduced like this.

$$int sqrt(fracdxdt)^2 + (fracdydt)^2dt = int fracdxdtsqrt1 + frac(fracdydt)^2(fracdxdt)^2dt = intsqrt1+(fracdydx)^2dx$$

So, the second method also yields 4.

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Your first method requires a change. (It is $dt$ not $dx$)

$$I = int^1_0 sqrt(fracdxdt)^2 + (fracdydt)^2dt = int^1_0 sqrt(8t)^2(cos^2t + sin^2t)dt =int^1_0 8tdt = 4[t^2]^1_0 = 4$$

Now, for the 2nd method.

It is actually an equivalence of the first one. It can be deduced like this.

$$int sqrt(fracdxdt)^2 + (fracdydt)^2dt = int fracdxdtsqrt1 + frac(fracdydt)^2(fracdxdt)^2dt = intsqrt1+(fracdydx)^2dx$$

So, the second method also yields 4.

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Your first method requires a change. (It is $dt$ not $dx$)

$$I = int^1_0 sqrt(fracdxdt)^2 + (fracdydt)^2dt = int^1_0 sqrt(8t)^2(cos^2t + sin^2t)dt =int^1_0 8tdt = 4[t^2]^1_0 = 4$$

Now, for the 2nd method.

It is actually an equivalence of the first one. It can be deduced like this.

$$int sqrt(fracdxdt)^2 + (fracdydt)^2dt = int fracdxdtsqrt1 + frac(fracdydt)^2(fracdxdt)^2dt = intsqrt1+(fracdydx)^2dx$$

So, the second method also yields 4.

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The second method should give you the correct answer as well.

Note that $$ sqrt1+(fracdydx)^2 dx =sqrt 1+tan^2(t)(8tcos(t))dt$$

so the arc length is $$int _0^1 sqrt 1+tan^2(t)(8tcos(t))dt = int _0^1 8tdt=4$$

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The second method should give you the correct answer as well.

Note that $$ sqrt1+(fracdydx)^2 dx =sqrt 1+tan^2(t)(8tcos(t))dt$$

so the arc length is $$int _0^1 sqrt 1+tan^2(t)(8tcos(t))dt = int _0^1 8tdt=4$$

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answered May 13 at 1:59

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The second method should give you the correct answer as well.

Note that $$ sqrt1+(fracdydx)^2 dx =sqrt 1+tan^2(t)(8tcos(t))dt$$

so the arc length is $$int _0^1 sqrt 1+tan^2(t)(8tcos(t))dt = int _0^1 8tdt=4$$

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answered May 13 at 1:59

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