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Here's a pretty difficult integral that our prof threw at us a couple days ago... left the whole class a little dumbfounded. I wish I had symbols to use (such as the ones that a lot of the pros on this site use)... but I'm sure you'll be able to understand.
Integrate (from a to b) the following (1-x^2)(f ''(x)) dx
He went on to say that if we couldn't get that, perhaps we should look at this one:
Integrate (from -a to a) the following (a^2-x^2)(f ''(x))
(he suggested IBP)
I think what threw most people off was how he knew what f''(x) was without identifying it directly.
Thanks for everyones help in advance!
-Chris
Integrate (from a to b) the following (1-x^2)(f ''(x)) dx
He went on to say that if we couldn't get that, perhaps we should look at this one:
Integrate (from -a to a) the following (a^2-x^2)(f ''(x))
(he suggested IBP)
I think what threw most people off was how he knew what f''(x) was without identifying it directly.
Thanks for everyones help in advance!
-Chris