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1. \int \frac{x}{(x-3)^{2}+1}
which was had by completing the square integrate
\int \frac{x}{x^{2}-6x+10}

u = x
du = 1
dv=\frac{1}{(x-3)^{2}+1) }
v=arctan(x-3)

The Attempt at a Solution


This problem was presented in a refresher sheet for an engineering course I'm taking this semester. I completed many long and tedious integrations but seem to run into a problem on only this one from the entire sheet. I could easily just forget this problem and use the arctan solution in the integral tables which I inadvertently memorized while trying to solve this problem. If I attempt to integrate by parts from the beginning using the completed square I get the following; which is where I run into a problem. If someone could work out a proper solution I would be eternally grateful even if you just dump it in without using latex.
x*arctan(x-3) - \int arctan(x-3)

Integrating arctan when only x or x with a coefficient is easily done by integrating by parts. However I seem to repeat the initial problem when I try to integrate it regardless. The whole difficulty seems to lie with having u=(x-3) rather than (x) or (nx)...
 
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You may proceed as follows:
\int\frac{x}{(x-3)^{2}+1}dx=\int\frac{(x-3)+3}{(x-3)^{2}+1}dx=\int\frac{(x-3)}{(x-3)^{2}+1}dx+\int\frac{3}{(x-3)^{2}+1}dx

Both of these two integrals are easy to compute.
 
you sir are made of win sauce!

I will post my final answer in a moment for anyone else who stumbles upon this problem!
 
Wow thanks for that trick, I will make sure to utilize it fully in the future. Silly me!
Assuming I made no mistakes:

=\frac{1}{2}ln((x-3)^{2}+1) + 3arctan(x-3)
 
And I'm happy to say that Mathematica agrees with me :)
Thanks, you really rock!
 
Okay, I guess I can't complain for lack of compliments...:shy:
 
C_{T}=\int^{0}_{1}\frac{\sigma}{2}r^{2}c_{l}dr

\sigma=\frac{Nc}{\pi R}
this assumes constant chord (i need to revise this for blade taper)
N: Number of blades
c: chord
R: radius

c_{l}=a\alpha
a: rotor slope of leading edge
alpha: angle of attack

C_{p}=\int \lambda dC_{T}+\int^{0}_{1}\frac{\sigma}{2}r^{3}c_{d}dr

\lambda=\frac{\sigma a}{16}[\sqrt{1+\frac{32}{\sigma a}\theta r}-1]
 
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