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Clicker Question 1 What is cos 3 (x) dx ? – A. ¼ cos 4 (x) + C – B. -3cos 2 (x) sin(x) + C – C. x – (1/3) sin 3 (x) + C – D. sin(x) – (1/3) sin 3 (x) + C – E. sin 2 (x) cos(x) + C
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Clicker Question 2 What is tan 4 (x)sec 4 (x)dx ? – A. (1/25)tan 5 (x)sec 5 (x) + C – B. tan 7 (x) + tan 5 (x) + C – C. tan 6 (x) + tan 4 (x) + C – D. (1/6) tan 6 (x) +(1/4) tan 4 (x) + C – E. (1/7)tan 7 (x) + (1/5)tan 5 (x) + C
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Trig Substitutions (9/19/12) Motivation: What is the area of a circle of radius r ? Put such a circle of the coordinate system centered at the origin and write down an integral which would get the answer. Can you see how to evaluate this integral?
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Replacing Algebraic With Trigonometric An expression like (1 – x 2 ) may be difficult to work with in an integral since the inside is a binomial. Perhaps the Pythagorean Identities from trig might help since they equate a binomial (1 – cos 2 ( )) with a monomial (sin 2 ( )). So try letting x = sin( ) and go from there. You must also replace dx !
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An example What is 1 /(1 – x 2 ) 3/2 dx ? Regular substitution? Well, try a “trig sub”. Let x = sin( ), so that dx = cos( ) d . Now rebuild the integrand in terms of trig functions of . Can we integrate what we now have?? (Yes, think back!) Finally, we must return to x for the final answer.
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Back to the circle Try a trig substitution. Since this is a definite integral, we can eliminate x once and for all and stick with (so we must replace the endpoints also!). We’ve now proved the most famous formula in geometry.
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Other trig substitutions Recall that d/dx(arctan(x)) = 1/ (1 + x 2 ) Hence 1 / (1 + x 2 ) dx = arctan(x) + C This leads to the idea that integrands which contain expressions of the form (a 2 + x 2 ) (where a is just a constant) may be related to the tan function. Thus in the expression above we make the substitution x = a tan( ) (so dx = a sec 2 ( )d ). What about expressions of the form (x 2 – a 2 )?
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Assignment for Friday Make sure you understand and appreciate the derivation of the area of a circle. Assignment: Read Section 7.3 and do Exercises 1, 3 (see Exercise 23 in Section 7.2), 4 (The answer is 2/15. Since it’s a definite integral, eliminate x completely, including endpoints), and 9.
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