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About Alon Mandes
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Kind of questions I can answer : Limits, Derivatives, Integration, Implicit functions, continuousity, differentiation ,Extremum problems, Lagrange multipliers, Gradients, Surface integrals, Multi variables functions ,Multi variables Integrals,Complex variables ,Complex functions, Curves, Trajectory integrals & Vector analyse,Divergence,Rotor & word problems. Kind of question I can't answer : Economics,Combinatorics,infinite series & convergence ,Statistics & Probabilities .

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Calculus - integration


Expert: Alon Mandes - 8/17/2008

Question
pleez help me to integrate 1/1 +cos x.tnx

Answer
OK, if I understood right , The Integrand function is :
1/[1+cos(x)tang(x)]=1/[1+sin(x)], so our integral becomes :
∫dx/[1+sinx]. Let set t=1+sinx then dt=cosxdx=sqrt[1-sin^2(x)]dx.
So dx=dt/sqrt(1-t^2) . Now we have to solve ∫dt/t[sqrt(1-t^2)].
Well,this integral need some more work :
I can claim that :
1/t[sqrt(1-t^2)] = sqrt(1-t^2)/t + t/sqrt(1-t^2) (chick it please !)
That means, our integral now becomes :
∫t/sqrt(1-t^2) + ∫sqrt(1-t^2)/t . OK.
The first integral is easy & it is -sqrt(1-t^2) .(chick it!)
The second part is the hard one. But, we will use the same method
as before : let's set u=sqrt(1-t^2) ,it means du=-t/sqrt(1-t^2)dt
--> dt=-dusqrt(1-t^2)/t
Hence, our integral is ∫-u^2/(1-u^2). (please confirm it !)
This integral is much easier & can be solved by using the trick
-u^2=1-u^2+1, I will leave it to you as an exercise & only give
you the final answer : ∫-u^2/(1-u^2)=u+0.5Ln(u-1)-0.5Ln(u+1). &
in terms of t is :
sqrt(1-t^2)+0.5Ln(sqrt(1-t^2)-1)-0.5Ln(sqrt(1-t^2)+1)
All right, so now what do we have so far ?

∫dx/[1+sinx]=∫dt/t[sqrt(1-t^2)]=∫t/sqrt(1-t^2)+∫sqrt(1-t^2)/t
=0.5Ln(sqrt(1-t^2)-1)-0.5Ln(sqrt(1-t^2)+1). Ler's put t=1+sinx :

∫dx/[1+sinx]=0.5Ln[cosx-1]-0.5Ln[cosx+1].

I hope this help you. Any problems, I'm here.

Alon.  

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