capt. crunch
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I am currently working on revision and the following question came up:
Find the integral of:
\int x^2 \sqrt{x-5}dx
now the way I went about solving this was to let u = x-5 and du = dx so that for the first step i got:
\int x^2 U^1/2 du. I felt wrong right from the get go and had a look at the worked solution and they came up with:
Let u =\sqrt{x-5}
then they got
2\intu^2 (U^2 +5)^2 du
I do not understand where this comes from?
EDIT i figured it out:
u = \sqrt{x-5}
x= u^2+5 therefore x^2 = (u^2+5)^2
dx = 2U du
This gives me all the values who's origins i was unsure of.
Find the integral of:
\int x^2 \sqrt{x-5}dx
now the way I went about solving this was to let u = x-5 and du = dx so that for the first step i got:
\int x^2 U^1/2 du. I felt wrong right from the get go and had a look at the worked solution and they came up with:
Let u =\sqrt{x-5}
then they got
2\intu^2 (U^2 +5)^2 du
I do not understand where this comes from?
EDIT i figured it out:
u = \sqrt{x-5}
x= u^2+5 therefore x^2 = (u^2+5)^2
dx = 2U du
This gives me all the values who's origins i was unsure of.
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