APM - Q3 - Trig. integrals


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2022-03-04

What is

\[\int \frac{\cos x - \sin x}{\cos x + \sin x}\]

?


\[\ln(\cos x + \sin x) + c\]

Because of the chain rule.

If you have

\[I _ 1 = \int\frac{\cos x}{a\cos x + b \sin x} \text{d}x\] \[I _ 2 = \int\frac{\sin x}{a\cos x + b\sin x}\]

then what could you do to make a nice integral by combining them that you could evaluate?


\[aI_1 + bI_2 = \int \frac{a\cos x + b\sin x}{a\cos x + b \sin x} \text{d}x\] \[bI_1 - aI_2 = \int \frac{b \cos x - a \sin x}{a \cos x + b \sin x} \text{d}x\]



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