# Definite trigonometric integral

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## Homework Statement

solve $\int_0^1 x^6 \arcsin{x} dx$

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## Homework Statement

solve $\int_0^1 x^6 \arcsin{x} dx$

3. The Attempt at a Solution

I tried substituting arcsinx=y, but abandoned it a few steps later ahead as it started taking a more complicated form. I have a feeling definite integral properties play a larger role here and tried applying some but didn't get anywhere. I'd appreciate some help, thanks
PS- I solved it using Integration by parts. Looking for a shorter method if exists

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Try integrating by parts several times. That is a little tedious but will get you the final answer.
Edit: wrote the above before your PS came up. I think by parts will be the shortest way.

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Try integrating by parts several times. That is a little tedious but will get you the final answer.
I solved it by a single integration by parts...I'm looking for an even shorter method

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did you get (35π -32)/490 ?

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I solved it by a single integration by parts...I'm looking for an even shorter method
Show your work. Maybe what you did is the shortest possible way, but we cannot tell if you don't show us.

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did you get (35π -32)/490 ?
Yes I did. (I took sin inverse as first function and x^6 as second, after 2 or 3 substitutions I got this answer)

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Show your work. Maybe what you did is the shortest possible way, but we cannot tell if you don't show us.
I simply took arcsinx as first function, and x^6 as second function. It was just a simple by-parts and the second term (derivative of arcsin*integral of x^6) was an algebraic term- I just used 2 substitutions to evaluate that and get the second term as well. What I mean by a shorter method is whether I can avoid the entire by-parts procedure and just use definite-integral properties to calculate this (i.e by a different approach)

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Sounds good. Which substitutions?
PS (after your edit): the parts method is pretty straightforward. If you want to play around a bit, you can also express arcsin x as -i*ln(i*x + (1-x2)½), but that would be longer to work with, and you would still end up using parts.

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Sounds good. Which substitutions?
PS (after your edit): the parts method is pretty straightforward. If you want to play around a bit, you can also express arcsin x as -i*ln(i*x + (1-x2)½), but that would be longer to work with, and you would still end up using parts.
haha, I guess a direct by parts is the shortest method possible. keeping arcsin as arcsin seems a better option, as for the substitutions I used- Its totally lost somewhere in my ton of rough work (side effects of a calculus course) but I remember It was something pretty standard like setting the term in the square-root in the denominator as t^2 and then further simplification

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haha, I guess a direct by parts is the shortest method possible. keeping arcsin as arcsin seems a better option, as for the substitutions I used- Its totally lost somewhere in my ton of rough work (side effects of a calculus course) but I remember It was something pretty standard like setting the term in the square-root in the denominator as t^2 and then further simplification
this is probably what the question-maker had in mind I guess, I see no other way to shorten or quicken this