Friday, 29 September 2017
Novel Integration Technique
How does one integrate the integral shown below? Well, the standard approaches don't work here and so a little trickery is called for. Here's the integral in question: Firstly, let's define a function as follows: Now let's differentiate both sides with respect to , not : Using integration by parts, can be expressed as follows: The demonstration of this integration by parts can be found here. Now integrating both sides with respect to b, we get: Comparing this result for with our earlier result, we can write: Now as , the equation reduces to: Finally, we can write: Now setting =0, we achieve our desired result, namely: A video demonstration of this technique (known as Feynman's Technique, presumably after the famous physicist) can be found here:
Labels:
Feynman,
integration,
Leibnitz
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