Problem in integrating to find Rutherford's formula

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Could someone guide me on what change of variable was used to obtain equation 9.138 from equation 9.137?
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Book : Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems 5th Edition by Stephen T. Thornton (Author), Jerry B. Marion (Author)

They told us to check equation 8.38 and in that page they had ##1/r^2## in the numerator so they used ##u=1/r## then they get ##du=-dr/r^2##.
But I cannot use that here because I have ##1/r## in the numerator ...
 
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If you take ##r## out from the square root in the denominator you get ##1/r^2## in the numerator.
 
Hill said:
If you take ##r## out from the square root in the denominator you get ##1/r^2## in the numerator.
I was oblivious. Thanks for your clever idea! I will retry to solve.
 
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