Re: simple antiderivative
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- Subject: [mg68130] Re: [mg68104] simple antiderivative
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:01:30 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:55 AM, T Harris wrote: > Hello, I am a beginner with Mathematica and I am wrapping up > Calculus 1 > right now. Here is my question. > > I am doing antiderivatives and tried to check one I did and can't > get my > handworked answer which is correct by the solution manual to match > Mathematica's > answer. I copied and pasted everything here so it looks weird > until you > paste it back in notebook. > > Here is my input copied and pasted; > > \!\(Integrate[8 x - 3\ \(Sec\^2\)[x], x]\) > > My output is : > > \!\(\[Integral]\((8\ x - 3\ \(Sec\^2\)[x])\) \[DifferentialD]x\) > > Why don't I get the answer below as I do when I do it by hand? The > antiderivative of Sec^2 is Tan. I am puzzled by the output > mathematica > gives. You put the exponent in the wrong place, you want Sec[x]^2 not (Sec^2) [x], try Integrate[8x - 3 Sec[x]^2, x] Regards, Ssezi
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- From: "T Harris" <tdh1967@bellsouth.net>
- simple antiderivative