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Can someone like just... Point out my mistake already...


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Go back to before you used a trigonometric substitution. Try something else. Technically, your t substitution will work, but I'd rather not go through three different substitutions.
 

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Go back to before you used a trigonometric substitution. Try something else. Technically, your t substitution will work, but I'd rather not go through three different substitutions.
I got lost right after my first instinct of s^2=u^2+...

Not sure what else to use actually. s=u+2 felt like it was doing nothing.
 

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No idea at all what to integrate in IBP. :/

edit: ......
I can interpret that as you just found out the answer so very quickly, or you tried by parts and got you nowhere. Please collapse the wavefunction.
 

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I can interpret that as you just found out the answer so very quickly, or you tried by parts and got you nowhere. Please collapse the wavefunction.
Lol I thought I had an epiphany but nope.

Edit: >_>.....or did I
 
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Screw it lol. Someone put me out of my agony I can't integrate today.
 

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Have you tried by parts?
Are you sure that there exists a nice elementary primitive? Check wherever you got this question from.

If so, post it. If you don't, it's safe to assume that you're just trying to waste our times with a question that cannot be done.

So please post the expression


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Are you sure that there exists a nice elementary primitive? Check wherever you got this question from.

If so, post it. If you don't, it's safe to assume that you're just trying to waste our times with a question that cannot be done.

So please post the expression


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P.S When this was posted, you were browsing this thread.
Yes, an elementary form exists. Three logs and a square root.
 

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Hmm... It seems the answer is not as nice as I had anticipated... This may take some time.
And to compound matters, LaTeX doesn't seem to be working on the site right now.
Test:

 

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Yeah, I would probably just resort to t-substitution after reaching the trig form of sec^3(s)/(1+tan(s)).

You are guaranteed success, it's just not an interesting / enlightening process.

I briefly tried some other things like the analogous hyperbolic trig route instead, but couldn't see anything nicer.
 

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If only the original integrand just had 3x^2. That would've made it a lot easier.
 

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Yeah, I would probably just resort to t-substitution after reaching the trig form of sec^3(s)/(1+tan(s)).

You are guaranteed success, it's just not an interesting / enlightening process.

I briefly tried some other things like the analogous hyperbolic trig route instead, but couldn't see anything nicer.
I've got a solution that involves introducing the t substitution later. I'm typing it up but I can't even know if my typesetting is correct because codecogs servers are down.
 

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I thought about this just now


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I've got a solution that involves introducing the t substitution later. I'm typing it up but I can't even know if my typesetting is correct because codecogs servers are down.
Yeah, there are a few different ways / times to do it. I don't think any of them will be significantly faster than all of the others though, its pretty much preference.
 
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