# Need help with the integration of attached problem

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1. Jul 9, 2015

### Shahryar

Kindly can someone tell me how can i integrate and plot the following formula as a function of time. while theta is changing from 1 to 20.
also attached .docx file for convenience. Any kind of help or advice will be highly appreciable.

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2. Jul 9, 2015

### Staff: Mentor

Where is the problem from? Is it for schoolwork?

3. Jul 9, 2015

### Shahryar

No its in my engineering design problem. I am just stuck here. I need to plot the graph for theta as a function of time. I am not really good in calculus to be honest.
May be i can use matlab to solve !

4. Jul 9, 2015

### Staff: Mentor

What does that mean? An engineering design project for what year in university? An engineering project for work? Where do you work?

5. Jul 10, 2015

### HallsofIvy

It would strike me as an obvious first step to use the facts that $sin(20- \theta)= sin(20)cos(\theta)- cos(20)sin(\theta)$ and $cos(20- \theta)= cos(20)cos(\theta)+ sin(20)sin(\theta)$.

That "20" looks strange for radian measure. If it is in degrees you should remember that $\int sin(x)dx= -cos(x)+ C$ and $\int cos(x)= sin(x)+ C$ only for x measured in radians.

6. Jul 11, 2015

### Shahryar

Yes that 20 is actually 20 degrees. should i convert it into radians which is 0.34906585 radians ?