Effortlessly Evaluate Integral Involving Sec with Limits -pi/3 to 0

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evaluate

[tex]\int2(sec x)^3[/tex] with the limits as -pi/3 to 0

I tried all sorts of things from breaking it apart to substitution, but known of what I tried work.

The book shows setting u=sec x & v=tan x

Then it shows the first step as 2 (sec x tan x) - 2 [tex]\int(sec x) * (tan x)^2 dx[/tex] then evaluate both parts to -pi/3 to 0.

Which is really what I'm not understanding. How did they integrate the first part & then still have the next part? I'm also not seeing how u & v come into play.

Guess I'm just plain lost on this one.
 
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Substitution

As Griffith's puts it, paraphrased, you can move the derivative from one variable to the other under an integral, and you'll just pick up a minus sign and a boundary term.

Thus the equation:
[tex]\int_a^buv'dx=\left.uv\right|_a^b-\int_a^bu'vdx[/tex]
 
[tex]\int\sec x(\tan^{2}x+1)dx[/tex]
[tex]\int\sec x\tan^{2}xdx+\int\sec xdx[/tex]

[tex]u=\sec x[/tex]
[tex]du=\sec x \tan x dx[/tex]

[tex]dV=\tan^{2}xdx[/tex]
[tex]V=\sec x[/tex]
 
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