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Feb21-12, 05:36 PM   #8

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Quote by emc92 View Post
oh darn! i did forget. okie well, now that I have dθ in there and i changed x^2, i still have a really ugly equation.. what should i do next?
Bring the cos(θ) inside the square root where it becomes cos^2(θ). And i) replacing the a^2 with x^2/sin^2(θ) doesn't do you any good and ii) somewhere you missed cancelling an a^2.