Tracking net water volume changes in hydroelectric reservoirs requires integrating the net flow rate (inflow minus spillway discharge) over an operational time period.
Water discharges through a spillway of a reservoir at a time-varying rate of cubic meters per minute for , where is measured in minutes. Initially, the reservoir has cubic meters of active storage.
Determine the following:
- Write the definite integral representing the total volume of water discharged (lost) from the reservoir between and minutes.
- Evaluate this integral and determine how much water is remaining in the reservoir after minutes.