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Lecture Notes for 120 - UCLA Department of Mathematics

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2.3. LENGTH AND AREA 36<br />

(22) (Newton, 1671, but the idea is much older <strong>for</strong> specific curves. Kepler<br />

considered it well-known.) Consider a regular planar curve q (t). For 3<br />

consecutive values t ✏

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