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About NUR ARINA BASILAH BINTI KAMISAN
Expertise
i can answer derivatives and integral questions but not so expert in answering limits,vector and infinite series.

Experience
i teached calculus for foundation students at university malaya and i also teached tutorial class in university for subject differential equation when i was doing my degree.currently i'm teaching algebra for foundation students.

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i have degree in mathematics with education and now i'm futhering my study in master of statistics at university malaya.

 
   

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Calculus - integration


Expert: NUR ARINA BASILAH BINTI KAMISAN - 8/17/2008

Question
pleez help me to integrate sin x/cos squared x+cos x-2

Answer
hi taahira,

i'm a little bit confuse with your question with cos x-2.is it cos(x-2) or cos(x)-2.i assume it was cos(x)-2.

so when you have to integrate sin x/cos^2(x)+cos x-2,first step is:

let u=cos x then du=-sin xdx
now substitute it into the original equation and you will have:
-du/(u^2+u-2) or
-[1/u^2+1/u-1/2]du
and integrate this you will have:
-[-1/u+ln(u)-u/2]+c
1/u-ln(u)+u/2+c
substitute back u=cos x
1/cos x-ln(cos x)+cos x/2+c

for further information on integration of trigonometry,you can refer to this website:
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~kouba/CalcTwoDIRECTORY/trigintdirectory/TrigInt.htm...

good luck!!!

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