Instead just find the straight-line distance between the points 2f 2 2 7 and 1f 1 1 1. Check your answer by noting that the curve is a line segment and calculating its length by the distance formula. S ba1 f x2 dxThe Arc Length Formula.
The calculations and the answer for the integral can be seen here.
The arc length is then given by. Differentiate Equation 1 with respect to x. In this section we use definite integrals to find the arc length of a curve. Added Mar 1 2014 by Sravan75 in Mathematics.