Curve length calculator

One application of a definite integral is to calculate the arc length of a plane curve. The figure shows a graph of the function :

In order to find out the arc length of the curve of the line shown in the figure, one should calculate the definite integral:

More generally, if we have a function defined in Cartesian coordinates and the task is to find the arc length of the curve between the points and , we need to calculate the integral:

In the above formula, the expression means that you should first calculate the derivative of the function , and then find the square of the resulting expression.

Our online calculator allows one to calculate the length of the curve defined in cartesian coordinates for any, even very complicated function.