Integral calculation

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• Apr 16th 2009, 04:59 AM
hokutose
Integral calculation
Hi! I have a problem solving this integral.Could someone help me or give me an advice?

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$\int_{0}^{2\pi} cos(\theta)exp(a \cos(\theta))d\theta
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Thankyou in advanced!
• Apr 16th 2009, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by hokutose
Hi! I have a problem solving this integral.Could someone help me or give me an advice?

$
$
$\int_{0}^{2\pi} cos(\theta)exp(a \cos(\theta))d\theta
$

Thankyou in advanced!

Are you sure you copied down the integral correctly?

Mathematica is telling me this can't be solved exactly...
• Apr 17th 2009, 12:22 AM
hokutose
Hi! ,Thanks for replying!
Yes, i'm sure it's like that. I also tried with Mathematica,and it seems that there is no elemental solution,but for instance, the integral

$
\int exp(\cos(a\theta))d\theta
$

Can be expressed in terms of the modified bessel function of the first kind I0(x)
so i was wondering if i could do something like that...(my code is plenty of integrals so if i can avoid to compute any of them numerically it would be great)