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Liquid7800
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Homework Statement
Hello,
After some algebraic manipulation my arc length formula of sqrt(1+y')^2) resulted in
sqrt(1+ tan^2 (x))...which can translate into sqrt(sec^2(x)).
My question is does the square root cancel the sec^2 ? becoming sec x?
Like sqrt(x^2) is x?
Thanks!