Thread: Help evaluating integral

Could someone please help evaluate the integral

Originally Posted by dnftp

Could someone please help evaluate the integral

Let



So we have,


But we said , so rearranging we get

So sub that in:

=

=

Now it's easy. Just remember to sub in the value of u after you've done the integration.

Alternatively, we can consider it as a binomial differential




In our case




So, with the substitution



we obtain a rational integral on t.