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Can someone please tell me where ¼ is coming from, FAST PLEASE!!!!!!


∫sin2 x dx
=∫ 1-cos 2x/2 dx
=½ ∫ dx -1/2 ∫cos 2x dx
=1/2x -1/4sin 2x +c

2006-11-09 13:56:01 · 2 answers · asked by Carebear 1 in Education & Reference Home Schooling

2 answers

Writing this out in more detail:
1/2 ∫cos (2x) dx
u=2x, du=2 dx, dx=du/2
1/2 ∫cos u/2 du
1/4 ∫cos u du
1/4 sin u + C
1/4 sin (2x) + C

The u comes from the fact that you are integrating cos 2x, not cos x.

Oh, and in the second step, you should have ∫(1-cos (2x))/2 dx -- the way you wrote it literally means ∫1 - x (cos 2)/2 dx, which is absurd.

2006-11-10 11:35:37 · answer #1 · answered by Pascal 7 · 1 0

the quintessential of cos2x is a million/2 sin2x (it somewhat is straight forward to envision, merely paintings out the spinoff of a million/2 sin2x and you get cos 2x) so this a million/2 alongside with the a million/2 outdoors the quintessential grants a million/4 desire this facilitates!

2016-12-28 17:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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