How Does Changing Variables Affect Integrals in Calculus?

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I am having a little trouble to see how the changes of variables works here.
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Be ##x = x(u,v) y = y(u,v)##, if ##F = \int f(x,y,y')dx## and the Jacobian's determinant different of zero, ##v = v(u)##
##{\Large {J = \int F[x,y,y']dx ---> \int F[x(u,v),y(u,v),\frac{y_{u} + y_{v}v'}{x_{u} + x_{v}v'}](x_{u} + x_{v}v')du}}##

The last term in the bracket is confusing me, how to get it?
 
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You have ##x = x(u, v(u))## and you need ##\frac{dx}{du}##. Can you do that differentiation?
 
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PeroK said:
You have ##x = x(u, v(u))## and you need ##\frac{dx}{du}##. Can you do that differentiation?
Oh, so we can do y' = dy/dx = dy/du/dx/du, i was confusing terms, but now it is ok, thx
 
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