diffusion
Oct29-09, 08:31 AM
Ok, I'm trying to solve this physics problem and I've come to the following integral (d is taken to be some constant):
1. \int^{+\infty}_{-\infty}{\frac{1}{(x^2 + d^2)^\frac{3}{2}}}dx
Now, integrating this I am supposed to get
2. {\frac{x}{d^2\sqrt{x^2 + d^2}}}, evaluated at \pm\infty (Sorry, don't know latex code for that).
I don't know how to evaluate this last step. It would seem I should either get 0 or infinity, but apparently that isn't the answer. Could anyone enlighten me?
1. \int^{+\infty}_{-\infty}{\frac{1}{(x^2 + d^2)^\frac{3}{2}}}dx
Now, integrating this I am supposed to get
2. {\frac{x}{d^2\sqrt{x^2 + d^2}}}, evaluated at \pm\infty (Sorry, don't know latex code for that).
I don't know how to evaluate this last step. It would seem I should either get 0 or infinity, but apparently that isn't the answer. Could anyone enlighten me?