Subject: integrate(sin(x)*cos(x),x) I got a solution
From: Doug Stewart
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:35:31 -0500
assume (t>0);
integrate(cos(x)*sin(x),x,0, t);
trigsimp(%);
Calculated in 0.09171 seconds.
(%i1) assume(t > 0)
(%o1) [t > 0]
(%i2) integrate(cos(x) sin(x), x, 0, t)
2
1 cos (t)
(%o2) - - -------
2 2
(%i3) trigsimp(%)
2
sin (t)
(%o3) -------
2
OK this works but it seems like a long way around for beginning students.
My real problem was to get Maxima to show all the intermediate steps in
calculating an answer to a question.
Other people have brought this up in the past and I am not asking that
it be visited again, I am just explaining why I am doing all this.