Sunday, July 28, 2013

problem 5: solution to the slightly harder integral

I must say, this was a bit more challenging, but nothing I can't do.


Using properties of logarithms, I can rewrite the integral like this:
It simplifies to this:
Now I just need a little u-substitution. 
For u-substitution to work, I'll also have to rewrite the integral as follows:
After doing u-substitution, it should look like this:

The integral of ln(x) requires integration by parts. I'm not going to go through the process now because I did it in a different post. It should like this this:
Well, it's simple from here. Just plug back in (x^2+1) in place of u. I'm going to leave it in terms of u because it's long and messy in terms of x.

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