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Example
Find the integral of:
(a) -sin x cos²x
(b) 3x² / x³ + 1
(a) Using the first of the two above formulae above, imagine f(x) = cos x and n = 2.
Therefore [f(x)] ² = cos²x and f "(x) = -sin x. Therefore, since n = 2, the answer is
simply (cos³x)/ 3 + c
(b) Since the top is the differential of the bottom, we can use the second of the two
formulae above to get the answer of ln (x³ + 1) + c.
Integration by Parts
When we have an integral like ∫x sin x, integration by parts is used. In it one function is
integrated and the other is differentiated and expressed in form uv - ∫vu’. Solving the above
function using integration by parts:
∫x sin x. dx
u= x u'= 1
v'= sin x v= - cos x
= -x cos x - ∫ - cos x. dx
= -x cos x - (-sin x) +c
= sin x – x cos x +c