Solving a Tricky Integral: Help with Double Integrals in Polar Coordinates

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Homework Statement



I can't seem to figure out how to solve this integral:

[tex]\int[/tex]cos2(2[tex]\Theta[/tex])d[tex]\Theta[/tex]

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The Attempt at a Solution



I tried doing integration by parts by first letting v=d[tex]\Theta[/tex] and dV=[tex]\Theta[/tex], and U=cos2(2[tex]\Theta[/tex]) and dU=-4[tex]\Theta[/tex]cos(2[tex]\Theta[/tex])sin(2[tex]\Theta[/tex])d[tex]\Theta[/tex], and then putting it into the form [tex]\int[/tex]UdV=UV-[tex]\int[/tex]VdU, but that didn't really take me anywhere. Is there another way I should try to solve this integral? This is my fourth university calc class, and the full question is double integrals with polar coordinates, so I probably learned how to solve these types of integrals somewhere down the road, I just can't seem to remember. Thanks in advance
 
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