Total oil pumped via net change theorem
An oil pump extracts oil from a well at a rate of barrels per hour, where is the number of hours after the pump starts.
Use the Net Change Theorem to find the total amount of oil pumped during the first 24 hours of operation, that is, evaluate
Hint
The total accumulated quantity is the integral of the rate function over the given time interval. Split the integral into two terms, and for the cosine term use u-substitution with to find its antiderivative.
Step-by-step solution
By the Net Change Theorem, the total oil pumped equals . Split the integral: . For the second integral, let , so , meaning .
This gives . Evaluating from to : the sine term is , since corresponds to . So only the constant term contributes: barrels.
Therefore the total oil pumped over the 24 hours is barrels — the cosine term integrates to zero over a full period, leaving only the constant average rate of barrels/hour times hours.
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