1. ## Antidifferentiation

1/(2x-2)
How would I antidifferentiate this?
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2. $\frac{1}{2x-2} = \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{x-1}$

now it should be rather simple to find the antiderivative ...

3. Ah, that's what I was looking for. Thanks. It'd be just my luck that the one situation I'm not familiar with, and don't have in my notes, would show up on the exam.
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4. You first need to know basic integration identities.

We're gonna use $\int\frac{du}u=\ln|u|+k.$ Note that your integral seems to be familiar to our little fact, then, how can we turn $\int\frac{dx}{2x-2}$ into $\int\frac{du}u$? We need a substitution, which is $u=2x-2\implies du=2\,dx$ so that $\frac{du}2=dx,$ and the integral becomes $\frac12\int\frac{du}u.$ From here, we're done, 'cause we've turned our integral into a known one, so the antiderivative of $\frac1{2x-2}$ is $\frac12\ln|2x-2|+k.$

(Note that we can't say $\int\frac{dx}{2x-2}=\ln|2x-2|+k,$ one has to turn the integral into a known one. You may differentiate $\ln|2x-2|$ but that won't yield the integrand. However, by differentiating $\frac12\ln|2x-2|$ will yield the integral.)

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I know I got beaten answering this, but I wanted to go in depth a bit.