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braintic · Jul 6, 2013

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Sy123 said:
$For some non-negative integer$ \ \ n \ \ $evaluate$

$\int_0^1 \frac{x^{2n}}{1-x^2} \ dx$

I think there is a problem there, considering the upper limit and the denominator.
And Wolfram says "integral does not converge".

Sy123 · Jul 6, 2013

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braintic said:
I think there is a problem there, considering the upper limit and the denominator.
And Wolfram says "integral does not converge".

Ah upper limit is supposed to be 1/2, not 1 sorry about that.

braintic · Jul 6, 2013

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Sy123 said:
$For some non-negative integer$ \ \ n \ \ $evaluate$

$\int_0^{1/2} \frac{x^{2n}}{1-x^2} \ dx$

I can only turn this into a recurrence relation leading to (ln3)/2 minus a sum of n terms, each term being 1/[(2k-1).2^k]. Is this correct, and is it possible to sum this series?

RealiseNothing · Jul 6, 2013

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Sy123 said:
$For some non-negative integer$ \ \ n \ \ $evaluate$

$\int_0^{1/2} \frac{x^{2n}}{1-x^2} \ dx$

$\frac{x^{2n}}{1-x^2}$

$-(\frac{1-x^{2n}-1}{1-x^2})$

$-(\frac{1-x^{2n}}{1-x^2} - \frac{1}{1-x^2})$

$\frac{1}{1-x^2} - \frac{1-x^{2n}}{1-x^2}$

$\frac{1}{1-x^2} - 1 - x^2 - x^4 - ... - x^{2n-2}$

Then just integrate this which is straight forward.

Sy123 · Jul 6, 2013

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RealiseNothing said:
$\frac{x^{2n}}{1-x^2}$

$-(\frac{1-x^{2n}-1}{1-x^2})$

$-(\frac{1-x^{2n}}{1-x^2} - \frac{1}{1-x^2})$

$\frac{1}{1-x^2} - \frac{1-x^{2n}}{1-x^2}$

$\frac{1}{1-x^2} - 1 - x^2 - x^4 - ... - x^{2n-2}$

Then just integrate this which is straight forward.

Interesting method, nice work.

Alternatively, if we consider the integral to be I_n
We find that I(n-1)-I(n) = (something integratable)
Then take a sum of both sides from k=1 to n, the LHS telescopes to leave I(1) and I(n), the RHS being an unevaluatable sum.

braintic said:
I can only turn this into a recurrence relation leading to (ln3)/2 minus a sum of n terms, each term being 1/[(2k-1).2^k]. Is this correct, and is it possible to sum this series?

Yep that is the simplest form one can get it at HSC level, I think it might have something to do with harmonic numbers however if we were to evaluate it in terms of those terms.

Sy123 · Jul 7, 2013

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$\int \frac{x^2-1}{x\sqrt{x^4+1}} \ dx$

RealiseNothing · Jul 7, 2013

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Sy123 said:
$\int \frac{x^2-1}{x\sqrt{x^4+1}} \ dx$

This lol?

$\frac{1}{4}\ln(\frac{(x^4+2\sqrt{x^4+1}+2)(2x^4+2x^2+1)}{x^4}) + C$

RealiseNothing · Jul 7, 2013

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RealiseNothing said:
This lol?

$\frac{1}{4}\ln(\frac{(x^4+2\sqrt{x^4+1}+2)(2x^4+2x^2+1)}{x^4}) + C$

Keeping all the logs separate gives:

$\frac{1}{2}\ln(\sqrt{x^4+1} + x^2) + \frac{1}{4}\ln(\sqrt{x^4+1}+1) - \frac{1}{4}\ln(\sqrt{x^4+1}-1)$

Sy123 · Jul 7, 2013

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RealiseNothing said:
Keeping all the logs separate gives:

$\frac{1}{2}\ln(\sqrt{x^4+1} + x^2) + \frac{1}{4}\ln(\sqrt{x^4+1}+1) - \frac{1}{4}\ln(\sqrt{x^4+1}-1)$

I don't think that is correct, some of your logarithms look similar to my ones so you may have made a mistake somwhere.

asianese · Jul 7, 2013

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My answer was

$\dfrac{1}{2} \left( \ln\left[(x^2+\sqrt{x^4+1}\right] +\ln \left[ \dfrac{\sqrt{x^4+1}+1}{x^2}\right] \right) +\psi.$

Solution:

$$Let $ x^2=\tan \theta \Rightarrow x^2-1=\tan\theta -1, x^4=\tan^2 \theta, x^4+1=\sec^2 \theta.$

$2x \mathop{dx} = \sec^2 \theta \mathop{d\theta} \Rightarrow \mathop{dx} = \dfrac{\sec^2 \theta}{2\sqrt{\tan \theta}} \mathop{d\theta}.$

$\begin{align*}I&= \int \dfrac{\tan\theta -1}{\sqrt{\tan\theta}\sqrt{\sec^2 \theta}} \cdot \dfrac{\sec^2 \theta}{2\sqrt{\tan\theta}} \mathop{d\theta}\\ &= \int \dfrac{(\tan\theta -1)\sec\theta}{2\tan\theta} \mathop{d\theta} \\ &= \dfrac{1}{2} \int \dfrac{\tan\theta \sec\theta -\sec\theta}{\tan\theta} \mathop{d\theta} \\ &= \dfrac{1}{2} \int \sec \theta - \csc\theta \mathop{d\theta} \\ & =\dfrac{1}{2}\left[ \ln(\sec\theta + \tan\theta)+\ln(\csc\theta+\cot\theta)\right] \\ &=\dfrac{1}{2} \left[ \ln\left(\sqrt{x^4+1}+x^2\right)+\ln\left( \dfrac{\sqrt{x^4+1}+1}{x^2}\right) \right] + \psi. \end{align*}$

bleakarcher · Jul 7, 2013

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Sy123 said:
$\int \frac{x^2-1}{x\sqrt{x^4+1}} \ dx$

I got ln[(x+(1/x))+sqrt[x^2+(1/x)^2] + C

Sy123 · Jul 7, 2013

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bleakarcher said:
I got ln[(x+(1/x))+sqrt[x^2+(1/x)^2] + C

Yep this is what I was aiming at, divide both top and bottom by x^2, then substiute u=x+1/x, it dissolves into a standard integral.

Asianese and Realise your answers may be of a different form that can be manipulated using log properties or something.

bleakarcher · Jul 7, 2013

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Sy123 said:
Yep this is what I was aiming at, divide both top and bottom by x^2, then substiute u=x+1/x, it dissolves into a standard integral.

Asianese and Realise your answers may be of a different form that can be manipulated using log properties or something.

Thing is though, by dividing by x at the bottom and bottom then applying x=sqrt(x^2) we are assuming that x>0. So we've restricted the integrand to x>0 I think.

asianese · Jul 7, 2013

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I just checked in wolfram alpha - my answer was correct (differentiate the integral and get the same thing).

Scribbling some shit down with the logs you get the same answer as yours.

Sy123 · Jul 7, 2013

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bleakarcher said:
Thing is though, by dividing by x at the bottom and bottom then applying x=sqrt(x^2) we are assuming that x>0. So we've restricted the integrand to x>0 I think.

Yeah that's true....

Sy123 · Jul 7, 2013

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$Prove$

$\int_0^{\pi /2} \frac{dx}{1 + \cos \alpha \sin x} = \frac{\alpha}{\sin \alpha}$

$\cos \alpha \neq \pm 1$

asianese · Jul 7, 2013

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Sy123 said:
$Prove$

$\int_0^{\pi /2} \frac{dx}{1 + \cos \alpha \sin x} = \frac{\alpha}{\sin \alpha}$

Lel Syd Grammy 2011.

Sy123 · Jul 7, 2013

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asianese said:
Lel Syd Grammy 2011.

Originally STEP 200(something)!

Fun fact, some CSSA questions are directly ripped from a STEP paper. (i.e. 2011 Q7a, 2011 Q8b)
That is the only CSSA paper that I've seen so far, I'm going to start doing the other ones soon, but I'm guessing that even from the earlier CSSA papers there are STEP rips.

asianese · Jul 7, 2013

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Lel inception of maths questions.

braintic · Jul 7, 2013

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Sy123 said:
$Prove$

$\int_0^{\pi /2} \frac{dx}{1 + \cos \alpha \sin x} = \frac{\alpha}{\sin \alpha}$

Just checking - should there be a proviso that cos alpha is not equal to +/- 1 ?

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