Integral of squareroot and exponetial

[Mechdude]

Homework Statement

is there a general method of integrating this type of integral:
\int \sqrt{x -k} e^{-bx}

Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution

x-k={u}^{2}
dx=2udu
\int u^2 \,{e}^{{-b\left( {u}^{2}-k\right) }}du
\int {u}^{2}\,{e}^{{-b\,{u}^{2}}+{b\,k}}du

and it seems worse than its starting point

 

[csopi]

Actually it's not worse... You can finish the problem by integrating by parts:

<br /> \int u^2\,{e}^{-bu^2}=\int u\cdot u{e}^{-bu^2}<br />

I don't know what happened but as I type my message, the browser won't process more tex-code, so I put it in raw form, but I hope, you can understand from it what I'm saying. So:

=u\cdot \frac{{e}^{-bu^2}}{-2b}+\frac 1{2b}\,\int {e}^{-bu^2}

And it's done, because the last integral can be calculated explicitly, see the Gauss-distribution at wikipedia.

 

[Mechdude]

here's your code

=u\cdot \frac{{e}^{-bu^2}}{-2b}+\frac 1{2b}\,\int {e}^{-bu^2}

thanks
i was able to do it :)