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#1 2009-01-23 07:58:05
- spicytaco
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find the integral?
xsec^2tanxdx
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#2 2009-01-23 09:11:05
- Daniel123
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Re: find the integral?
You have something of the form
. Does that help?Offline
#3 2009-01-23 09:29:09
- Ricky
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Re: find the integral?
Is it not
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#4 2009-01-23 09:42:35
- Daniel123
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Re: find the integral?
Oh, well if it is good luck with integrating it.
I think it's more likely to be x sec^x tanx. If so, use integration by parts (differentiate x, integrate the rest)
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