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Hello wonderful mathematics people.
This is Anna Cox from Kellogg Community College.
3 basic trig substitutions.
We're going to let sqrt X ^2 + a ^2 equal a secant Theta.
If we thought about drawing a triangle, we could see that
secant Theta would just be sqrt X ^2 + a ^2 / A.
So if we drew our triangle, our hypotenuse would be that sqrt a
^2 + X ^2 and our adjacent side would be A, which would leave
our unknown side to be X or our third side to be plain old XA.
In this case, is going to be some constant.
So we could have a relationship that says the tangent of Theta
is X / a, or we could think of that as X equaling a tangent
Theta.
So if we wanted to solve for Theta, we would have tangent
inverse of X / a equaling Theta.
We're going to restrict that remembering about our tangent
graph.
If we think about our tangent graph, when we do the inverse,
we want it to be 1 to 1, so we want all the values in between
negative π halves and Pi halves.
That's going to be an important restriction.
So we know that secant Theta is greater than 0 in the
restriction of negative π halves less than Theta less than π
halves because secants greater than 0 in this restriction.
Then if we have sqrt a ^2 + X ^2, we could think of that as
sqrt a ^2 plus instead of X ^2.
Let's put in a tangent Theta and square it.
Then we can see that there's an A ^2 in both those terms, and we
get one plus tangent squared Theta, which is a Pythagorean
identity.
And that's really just secant squared Theta and sqrt a ^2 is
A.
The square root of secant squared Theta is going to be
secant Theta because secant Theta is positive in those
restricted boundaries.
Negative Π halves to Pi halves and the A is going to be a
distance, so the A is always going to be positive also.
So if we look at our next one, we're going to think about if we
let X equal a sine Theta.
So sine Theta is X / A.
If we draw our right triangle, we get X / A.
Our third side would then be sqrt a ^2 -, X ^2.
So if we solve for Theta, we get sine inverse of X / a equal
Theta with sine.
Once again, think about our graph and our restrictions for
sine are going to be negative π halves to Pi halves because it
needs to be 1 to one.
We need to cover every value exactly once.
So negative π halves less than or equal to Theta less than or
equal to π halves with sqrt a ^2 -, X ^2 instead of X ^2.
We're going to put in what it equals, which is a sine Theta
squared.
Factoring out the a ^2, we get one minus sine squared Theta
which is cosine squared Theta and square root of that is going
to be a square root of cosine squared Theta.
Cosine is positive in the restrictions for Theta, so we
get a cosine Theta.
We're going to use these in integrations for substitutions
in a few moments.
So our last one is going to be X equal a secant Theta.
We could think of X / a equals secant Theta, so hypotenuse over
adjacent.
That makes our third side be sqrt X ^2 -, a ^2.
So we could see secant inverse of X / a is Theta with our
secant inverse.
If we think about that graph, we have a graph that looks
something like this with an asymptote and a graph that looks
something like this.
So we're going to be looking at 0 to pie halves, not including
our pie halves because the asymptote union pie halves to
pie.
If we have instead of X ^2, we put in what it equals, a secant
Theta squared minus a ^2.
We factor out this a ^2 secant squared Theta -1 sqrt a ^2
tangent squared Theta because this is a Pythagorean identity.
It's going to equal a tangent Theta if we're on zero to π
halves, because tangent Theta in the first quadrant is always
positive.
But it's going to equal the opposite of a tangent Theta
between π halves and π because tangent in the second quadrant
is negative.
Another way to write it as we could think of it as a equal or
equal a, the absolute value of tangent Theta.
And that'll take into account what's happening because if we
have a tangent in between π halves and π that's negative,
we'd have the opposite of a negative, which would really
make it a positive A times tangent Theta.
So if we have sqrt X ^2 -, a ^2, just a refresher, we want to
think about the square root X -, a * X + A.
This X + a is always going to be positive.
So in order to get this to be a real number underneath, we need
the X -, A to also be positive.
So and it could technically equal 0, but we're talking
distances, so we really want it to be positive.
So X is going to be greater than a.
Or we could divide each side by A and get X / a greater than 1A
is a distance, so we know we don't have to worry about
flipping the inequality side by dividing by a negative.
So X = a tangent Theta when X / a is greater than one.
So that's another way of coming back and thinking about this
here.
If we think about an example, if we have 3D Y integral square
root 1 + 9 Y squared, the first thing we're going to do is think
about these as squares.
So 1 ^2 + 3 Y squared.
And we want to think about this three Y being which one of those
3 trig identities.
And we're going to say tangent Theta because when we draw our
triangle, we want the three Y to be opposite the one to be
adjacent so that we can have sqrt 1 + 9 Y squared being on
the hypotenuse.
So what we're really doing is we're looking at this piece here
to figure out where we're going to put our sides in order to
know which of the three trig substitutions we're going to use
SO3Y over one.
This is a right triangle is going to give us the tangent
Theta and that third side square root nine y ^2 + 1 is what's in
the denominator.
So if we know 3 Y is tangent Theta, we can have Y being 1/3
tangent Theta.
3D Y is going to be secant squared Theta D Theta.
So now when we integrate this 3D Y, we're going to substitute
secant squared Theta D Theta over sqrt 1 plus instead of the
three Y quantity squared, we're going to put in tangent squared
Theta.
But one plus tangent squared is secant squared and the square
root of the square is going to cancel.
So we're going to get a secant Theta to cancel top and bottom.
And we know that the integral of secant Theta D Theta is just the
natural log of the absolute value of secant Theta plus
tangent Theta plus C.
Now if we go back to that triangle, our secant Theta is
the square root of nine y ^2 + 1 / 1 and our tangent Theta was
three y / 1.
So our final answer is going to be the natural log of the
absolute value of square root nine y ^2 + 1 + 3 Y plus C We
actually know that this is going to be a positive, and we know
that Y is a distance, so it's actually going to also be a
positive.
So we could use parentheses there if we prefer, looking at
another example.
So on this example, we have one sqrt 1 -, 9 T squared.
So when I set up my triangle, I want to have my one on my
hypotenuse because I'm going to have one minus.
If we're thinking about a ^2 + b ^2 = C ^2 and we're going to
have something about something minus, we know that that first
thing is always going to be the hypotenuse minus.
In this case, we're going to put 3T on the opposite side so that
we have sine of 3T being 3T or sine of Theta being 3T over 1.
So if we have sine of Theta being 3T over one, that makes
our third side our adjacent side sqrt 1 - 9 T squared.
So if we have sine of Theta equaling 3T3DT is going to equal
cosine Theta D Theta or DT is 1/3 cosine Theta D Theta.
So now we're going to do some substitution.
Here's my 1/3, here's my cosine Theta D Theta.
The square root 1 minus instead of nine t ^2 that's going to get
substituted as sine squared Theta.
Well, we know that one minus sine squared Theta is really
cosine squared Theta, and the square root and a square are
going to cancel.
So we're going to get 1/3 cosine squared Theta, D Theta.
Now we don't know how to integrate this, but we have some
rules that say we can change a cosine squared Theta by the
power reducing formula into one plus cosine twice the angle over
2.
So now we get 1/3 the integral of one plus cosine 2 Theta over
2.
Integrating each of those pieces, I'm going to pull the
two out in front and the 1/2 in front.
So 1/6 Theta plus 1/2 sine 2 Theta plus C.
Now we don't want to have it in terms of Theta because the
original was in terms of T So we're going to look here and
we're going to realize that Theta is really sine inverse of
3T.
So we're going to have 1/6 sine inverse 3T plus 1/2.
Our triangle is Theta, not 2 Theta.
So we're going to use our double angle identity that says 2 sine
Theta, cosine Theta and then we have a + C So let's see.
Looks like I forgot a parenthesis there.
So 1/2 * 2 is going to cancel sine of this triangles 3T over
one cosine of sqrt 1 minus nine t ^2 / 1 + C.
So we could actually check this.
We could check all of these if we wanted.
So if we know that this is what we just evaluated the integral
for, if we actually took the derivative, it should come out
the same.
So 1/6 sine inverse of 3T.
The derivative of the three T is 3 over the square root 1 - 3 T
squared, in this case nine t ^2 plus.
Now we're going to do the product rule.
The derivative of 3T is going to be 3 times the square root of
the 1 - 9 T squared plus the 3T times the derivative of this.
Using the chain rule, we have -18 T over 2 times sqrt 1 - 9 T
squared plus the derivative of constants really just zero.
So technically down here we have a + 0.
Now, if we simplify this up, we'd get 3 + 3.
If I get a common denominator here, I'm going to multiply top
and bottom by sqrt 1 - 90 ^2.
So 3 * 1 - 90 ^2 - 27 T squared.
That doesn't seem right.
3 * 8 is 4/24 and 54.
Oh, except I reduced two goes into a negative eighteen.
9 * 9 * 3 is 27 OK 27 T squared.
So we'd have 1/6 of 3 + 3 - 20 seven t ^2 - 27 T squared, or
1/6 of 6 - 54 T squared's over sqrt 1 - 9 T squared, which
would give us 1 minus nine t ^2 / sqrt 1 - 9 T squared.
When I simplify that, I get sqrt 1 - 9 T squared.
If we look at another example, we're going to have five the
integral of five DX over the square root 20 five X ^2 - 9
where X is greater than 3/5.
That X is greater than 3/5 is important so that the inside of
the square root is positive.
So in this case, we're going to let 5X equal 3 secant Theta
because once again, on this triangle, I want the first term
because it's a minus to be on the hypotenuse SO5X over three,
which would give us our other side P to be sqrt 20 five X ^2
-, 9.
So we know that five X / 3 is secant Theta.
If we come back up here, five X / 3 is secant Theta.
So if we take the derivative of each side, we get 5 DX equaling
3 secant Theta tangent Theta D Theta going to take out the five
DX going to substitute what it equals square root.
Instead of 25 X squared, we're going to put in nine secant
squared Theta -9 pulling out sqrt 9, which is 3.
So those threes will cancel.
Secant squared Theta -1 is a trig identity, it's the tangent
squared.
And the square root of the tangent squared is going to
leave us tangent.
So those tangents will cancel.
So all of this really reduces to the integral of secant Theta D
Theta.
Well, we know that the integral of secant Theta D Theta is the
natural log of the absolute value of secant Theta plus
tangent Theta plus C or the natural log.
Looking at our triangle, instead of secant Theta, we're going to
have 5X over 3 plus instead of tangent Theta, we're going to
have sqrt 25 X squared -9 / 3, and that's plus C Looking at
another example, we have the integral of DX over X ^2 sqrt X
^2 + 1, so I'm going to let X be tangent Theta.
When I draw my triangle, I get X / 1, so my third side's sqrt X
^2 + 1.
When I take the derivative of each side, I get DX equaling
secant squared Theta D Theta.
So we have secant squared Theta D Theta for the DX instead of
the X ^2 we're going to put in tangent squared Theta, square
root tangent squared Theta, plus one trig identity again.
So the square root of secant squared Theta is going to give
me secant Theta canceling top and bottom.
So I'm going to get a secant Theta D Theta over tangent
squared Theta.
If I change this all into cosines and sines just so we can
see what's happening, we get the integral of one over cosine
Theta times cosine squared Theta over sine squared Theta D Theta,
which reduces to cosine Theta over sine squared Theta D Theta.
Now if we did AU sub and we let U equal our sine Theta, we'd
have DU equal cosine Theta D Theta.
So we'd end up with the integral of 1 / U ^2 DU, which would
actually evaluate to -1 / U + C, which is -1 over sine Theta plus
C, which is really negative cosecant Theta plus C.
And we look at our triangle because we need this in terms of
the XS that we started with.
Cosecantness is going to be sqrt X ^2 + 1 / X + C In this
example, we're going to let our tangent Theta be the LNY so that
when we take the derivative we have 1 / y DY equaling secant
squared Theta D Theta.
So when we do our substitution, we're going to have secant
squared Theta D Theta in the numerator over sqrt 1 plus
tangent squared Theta.
One plus tangent squared Theta we know is secant Theta and then
it's secant squared Theta and the square root gives us secant
Theta, so that reduces to secant Theta D Theta.
I did not change our bounds because it will be difficult to
change the bounds in this situation.
So we're going to substitute them back in the end.
The natural log of secant Theta plus tangent Theta from A to B.
When we look at our triangle, if we knew that the natural log of
Y was tangent Theta, the opposite sides natural log of Y
adjacent sides 1, sqrt 1 plus natural log of y ^2 is the
hypotenuse.
So secant Theta is that sqrt 1 plus natural log of y ^2 plus
tangent Theta which is just L&Y.
Putting in our bounds.
Going back to our original bounds of one to E, we get the
natural log of sqrt 1 plus the natural log of E.
Natural log of E is 1, so 1 + 1 is just two plus the natural log
of E which is one again minus the natural log of sqrt 1 plus
the natural log of one square.
Natural log of one is 0, so we get sqrt 1 which is just one,
and then the natural log of one which is 0, so we get 1 + 0 and
then the natural log of one is 0 again.
So that last term actually just goes to 0.
So we end up with the natural log of sqrt 2 + 1 as our final
answer.
If we look at one more example, we get X ^2 + 1 quantity squared
DYDX equaling sqrt X ^2 + 1, Y of 0 equal 1.
This is an initial value problem, and so we're going to
get our YS on one side and everything else on the other,
and then we're going to integrate.
So if I have the integral of DY equaling the integral of sqrt X
^2 + 1 / X ^2 + 1 ^2 DX, if I let X be tangent Theta.
So we have X over 1 sqrt X ^2 + 1 on our third side of our right
triangle.
DX is secant squared Theta D Theta.
So we're going to take out this DX.
We're going to put in secant squared Theta D Theta.
We're going to have the square root of tangent squared Theta
plus one over tangent squared Theta plus one quantity squared.
This inside quantity is just secant squared.
So secant squared squared is secant to the fourth Theta, the
square root of secant squared Theta plus one.
Well, the square root of tangent squared Theta plus one, which is
really secant squared Theta gives us a single secant times
another secant squared or secant cubed Theta.
That really simplifies into just cosine Theta D Theta.
And we know that cosine Theta D Theta, when we do the integral,
that's just going to give us Y equaling sine Theta plus C And
the initial bounds were given as Y of 0 equal 1.
So sine of 0 is 0.
So C is our 10.
We're not going to do that yet, sorry.
This was in terms of XS.
This is Y of X.
So we need to substitute back from our sine Theta.
So our sine Theta if we look at our triangle here.
Our sine Theta is going to be X / sqrt X ^2 + 1 + C Now that
zero is going in for our X's everywhere and our C is going to
end up being 1.
So when our C is one, we get Y equal X square root X ^2 + 1 X
over square root X ^2 + 1 + 1.
Thank you and have a wonderful day.