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Ch. 8 - Techniques of Integration
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Capitolo 8, Problema 8.7.20a

In Exercises 11–22, estimate the minimum number of subintervals needed to approximate the integrals with an error of magnitude less than 10^-4 by (a) the Trapezoidal Rule (The integrals in Exercises 11–18 are the integrals from Exercises 1–8.)
∫ from 0 to 3 of 1/√(x + 1) dx

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Identify the function to be integrated: \(f(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\) over the interval \([0, 3]\).
Recall the error bound formula for the Trapezoidal Rule: \(|E_T| \leq \frac{(b - a)^3}{12 n^2} \max_{a \leq x \leq b} |f''(x)|\), where \(n\) is the number of subintervals.
Compute the first derivative \(f'(x)\) and then the second derivative \(f''(x)\) of the function \(f(x)\).
Find the maximum absolute value of \(f''(x)\) on the interval \([0, 3]\) by analyzing \(f''(x)\) or evaluating it at critical points and endpoints.
Set the error bound \(\frac{(3 - 0)^3}{12 n^2} \max |f''(x)| < 10^{-4}\) and solve this inequality for \(n\) to estimate the minimum number of subintervals needed.

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