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2006-12-09 23:27:30 · 2 answers · asked by georgenader_0123 2 in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

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I'm sorry to say that this integral is not elementary.
Let's start with a substitution:
u = 3x² + 2
x = 1/√3* (u-2)^1/2
dx = 1/(2*√3)*(u-2)^(-1/2)du.
Then the integral becomes 1/(2*√3)*∫ u^(1/4)*(u-2)^(-1/2) du.
This integral is nearly a beta function and I think
it can be put in that form with more manipulation.
Then we can apply a theorem of Chebyshev
to conclude that the integral is not elementary,
because neither of the exponents is an integer
and they do not add up to an integer.
I ran this integral through the Wolfram integrator
and it gave me the answer in terms of a hypergeometric
function.

2006-12-10 09:00:11 · answer #1 · answered by steiner1745 7 · 0 0

(6x^2+6)^0.25

2006-12-10 07:00:23 · answer #2 · answered by ♥KiYa♥ 3 · 0 2

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