Help! Stuck on Ugly Integral - Need Advice!

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Hey guys.

I'm in the middle of this crazy exercise and I got stuck in this ugly integral in the bottom of the page, any ideas on how to solve it?


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It might help if you could state what the problem you are trying to solve is. It's not very clear from your working.
 
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