Not following an integral solution

Join the discussion
Ask a follow-up here, or get your own question answered by working scientists, mathematicians and engineers — people, not an autocomplete.
Real named experts · corrections over time · the nuance an AI answer skips
1 reply · 1K views
SamRoss
Gold Member
Messages
256
Reaction score
36
In the image below, why is the third line not \frac {ln(cosx)} {sinx}+c ? Wouldn't dividing by sinx be necessary to cancel out the extra -sinx that you get when taking the derivative of ln(cosx)? Also, wouldn't the negatives cancel?

9
 
Physics news on Phys.org
SamRoss said:
In the image below, why is the third line not \frac {ln(cosx)} {sinx}+c ? Wouldn't dividing by sinx be necessary to cancel out the extra -sinx that you get when taking the derivative of ln(cosx)? Also, wouldn't the negatives cancel?

9
I retract my question. I was imagining plugging cosx back in for u and imagining the second line was simply the integral of 1/cosx. Of course I was forgetting that I would also have to plug back in for du also which would in fact give me the sinx back (not to mention being a ridiculous thing to do because it just brings us back where we started).