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5/24/2017 CalculusIIPartialFractions

PartialFractions
Inthissectionwearegoingtotakealookatintegralsofrationalexpressionsofpolynomialsandonceagain
letsstartthissectionoutwithanintegralthatwecanalreadydosowecancontrastitwiththeintegralsthat
wellbedoinginthissection.


So,ifthenumeratoristhederivativeofthedenominator(oraconstantmultipleofthederivativeofthe
denominator)doingthiskindofintegralisfairlysimple.However,oftenthenumeratorisntthederivativeof
thedenominator(oraconstantmultiple).Forexample,considerthefollowingintegral.


Inthiscasethenumeratorisdefinitelynotthederivativeofthedenominatornorisitaconstantmultipleofthe
derivativeofthedenominator.Therefore,thesimplesubstitutionthatweusedabovewontwork.However,if
wenoticethattheintegrandcanbebrokenupasfollows,

thentheintegralisactuallyquitesimple.


Thisprocessoftakingarationalexpressionanddecomposingitintosimplerrationalexpressionsthatwecan
addorsubtracttogettheoriginalrationalexpressioniscalledpartialfractiondecomposition.Many
integralsinvolvingrationalexpressionscanbedoneifwefirstdopartialfractionsontheintegrand.

So,letsdoaquickreviewofpartialfractions.Wellstartwitharationalexpressionintheform,

wherebothP(x)andQ(x)arepolynomialsandthedegreeofP(x)issmallerthanthedegreeofQ(x).Recall
thatthedegreeofapolynomialisthelargestexponentinthepolynomial.Partialfractionscanonlybedoneif
thedegreeofthenumeratorisstrictlylessthanthedegreeofthedenominator.Thatisimportanttoremember.

So,oncewevedeterminedthatpartialfractionscanbedonewefactorthedenominatorascompletelyas
possible.Thenforeachfactorinthedenominatorwecanusethefollowingtabletodeterminetheterm(s)we
pickupinthepartialfractiondecomposition.

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