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- From: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: An Integral Problem
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:03:47 GMT
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- wielinga@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Bruce Wielinga) writes:
-
- % I would like help with this Intergral please
- % if anyone is willing to spare the time.
- % Basically it is:
- %
- % Integral of { [ A + B x^2 ]^(1/2) - [ C + x^2 ] }^(1/2) w.r.t x,
-
- I think you just need to make several substitutions. I made the
- following substititutions to simplify the integral:
-
- (1) Let y = sqrt(A/B)x
- (2) Let tan(theta) = y
- (3) Let z = sec(theta)
- (4) Let t = z - A*sqrt(A)/(2B)
- (5) Let s = t/k where k = sqrt(AC/B - A^3/(4B^2) - 1)
- (6) Let tan(alpha) = s
-
- Its too tedious to type in all the intermediate steps, but you should
- get the point. After all that, the integral I get is:
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- sqrt(-1) Integral sec(alpha)(k*tan(alpha) + m)^2 sec^2(alpha) d_alpha
-
- where m = A*sqrt(A)/(2B). This is just an ordinary trigonometric
- integral. Sorry about the sqrt(-1); I hope its supposed to be there.
-
- Darrell R. Hougen
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