ed84c Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Hi Guys, Just started teaching myself FP2 from home so I might end up with a lot of these.... anyway im trying to integrate sin5xcos2x dx but am running out of ideas. Ive tried to get everything into 2x's but each time I end up with something wierd. Any ideas?
Country Boy Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Looks to me like you need a trig identity! Do you know sin(x+y)= sin(x)cos(y)+ cos(x)sin(y)? If you replace y with -y that becomes sin(x-y)= sin(x)cos(y)- cos(x)sin(y) because cos(-y)= cos(y) and sin(-y)= -sin(y). Adding those two equations, 2sin(x)cos(y)= sin(x+y)+ sin(x-y) or sin(x)cos(y)= (sin(x+y)+ sin(x-y))/2. Now what does that give you for sin(5x)cos(2x)?
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