Re: Indefinate integrals, erroneus Natural log?
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- Subject: [mg77891] Re: [mg77842] Indefinate integrals, erroneus Natural log?
- From: Curtis Osterhoudt <cfo at lanl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, David,
The mistake is not putting an additional multiplication sign between
the "x" and the "E" in the integrand. Once you do that, Mathematica will give
you the expected---and correct---answer.
On Monday 18 June 2007 04:55:50 David Rees wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In preparation for a major exam tomorrow, I was just checking some of my
> answers to past-papers with mathematica, I fed it this input:
>
> In[117]:=
> \!\(\[Integral]\((xE\^\(2 x\))\) \[DifferentialD]x\)
> Out[117]=
> \!\(xE\^\(2\ x\)\/\(2\ Log[xE]\)\)
>
> I marked myself wrong and moved on to the next question, but I happened
> accross the actual mark-scheme which said I was correct. It gave this
> answer:
>
> ((1/2)xE^(2x))-(1/4)e^(2x)
>
> My Integral calculus isn't so strong, so I don't know if the additional
> natural log should be there, or if the two expressions are identical.
>
> Thanks
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