Monday, May 9, 2016

Find or evaluate the integral by completing the square

Recall  that :


as the integrand function


as the antiderivative of


"a" as the lower boundary value of x


"b" as the upper boundary value of x


To evaluate the given problem: , we need to determine the


 indefinite integral F(x)  of the integrand: .


We apply completing the square on .


Factor out  from to get


The or resembles where:


and that we can plug-into .



              


             


             


To complete the square, we add and subtract 4 inside the ():



Distribute (-1) in "-4" to move it outside the ().



                         


Apply factoring for the perfect square trinomial



                                     



which means 


Applying it to the integral:



To solve for the indefinite integral of ,


let then and .


Apply u-substitution , we get:



                             


                             


 Apply the basic integration property: .  


 


For the integration of the first term ,


let then or then it becomes:



Applying radical property: and  Law of exponent: , we get:




Then,



Applying Power Rule of integration:



                         


                       


                         


                         


Recall .


Then,




For the integration of the second term:   ,


 we apply the basic integration formula for inverse sine function:



Then,



                    


 For the complete indefinite integral, we combine the results as:



 Then plug-in to express it terms of x, to solve for .



For the definite integral, we applying the boundary values: and in .



       


       


         


       


         

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