leon.magiera at wp.pl writes:
> Dnia 2-01-2012 o godz. 17:06 Rupert Swarbrick napisa??(a):
>> leon.magiera at wp.pl writes:
>> > Dnia 2-01-2012 o godz. 14:28 Rupert Swarbrick napisa??(a):
>> >> leon.magiera at wp.pl writes:
>> >> > Problem 2
>> >> >
>> >> > ex:1/(sqrt((x-b)^2+a^2)*sqrt((x-b)^2/a^2+1));
>> >> >
>> >> > integrate(ex,x);
>> >> >
>> >> > Is the above integral too hard ?
>> >
>> > CAS DERIVE returns
>> > ATAN((x - b)/ABS(a))
>
> Details
> ex:=1/(??((x - b)^2 + a^2)????((x - b)^2/a^2 + 1))
> int(ex,x)
> ATAN((x - b)/ABS(a))
> We check the obtained result
> DIF(ATAN((x - b)/ABS(a)),x)-ex
> 0
>
>> Well, I'm pretty certain that you've either copied something incorrectly
>> or made another mistake. Look at the bottom of the integrand. It's a
>> product of two terms. One scales as a and the other as 1/a. Therefore
>> the product doesn't have any first-order dependence on a and the derive
>> answer you give above can't possibly be right.
>>
>> Maybe I've misunderstood your original question?
>>
>> Rupert
Erk. It seems I can't read parentheses properly. What you have written
agrees with what I said in the first place: I didn't realise that the
abs(a) was inside the arc tangent.
Rupert
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