OCR FP2 2016 June — Question 7

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicSequences and series, recurrence and convergence

7
  1. By using a set of rectangles of unit width to approximate an area under the curve \(y = \frac { 1 } { x }\), show that \(\sum _ { x = 1 } ^ { \infty } \frac { 1 } { x }\) is infinite.
  2. By using a set of rectangles of unit width to approximate an area under the curve \(y = \frac { 1 } { x ^ { 2 } }\), find an upper limit for the series \(\sum _ { x = 1 } ^ { \infty } \frac { 1 } { x ^ { 2 } }\).