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Showing posts with label Integrals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Integrals. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2015

An integral involving Sophomore's dream constant

The Sophomore's dream constant denoted as $\mathscr{S}$ is defined to be the series:

$$\mathscr{S}= \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^n}$$

One interesting identity is the following

$$\int_0^1 x^{-x}\, {\rm d}x = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} n^{-n} = \mathscr{S} \tag{1}$$

In this thread however we take the above for granted (and leave the proof to the reader since it is not that difficult)  and prove another interesting identity which is:

$$\int_0^1 \frac{\ln x}{x^x}\, {\rm d}x =- \mathscr{S}$$

Solution

An integral with arctan

Evaluate the following integral:
$$\int_0^{2-\sqrt{3}}\frac{\arctan x}{x}\, {\rm d}x$$

The result is due to Ramanujan.

Solution

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Integral with arctangents

Evaluate the integral:

$$\int_0^\infty \frac{\tan^{-1}(\pi x)-\tan^{-1} x}{x}\, {\rm d}x$$

Solution


Monday, September 7, 2015

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

On a classic integral

Evaluate the integral:

$$I=\int_{-\pi/2}^{\pi/2}\frac{1}{2007^x +1}\cdot \frac{\sin^{2008}x}{\sin^{2008}x +\cos^{2008}x}\, {\rm d}x$$

Solution

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Definite integral

Let $a>1$. Evaluate the integral:

$$\int_1^{a^2} \frac{\ln x}{\sqrt{x}(x+a)}\, {\rm d}x$$

Solution

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

An integral with arccosine

Evaluate the integral:

$$\mathcal{J} = \int_{-1/\sqrt{3}}^{1\sqrt{3}}\frac{x^4}{1-x^4}\cos^{-1}\left ( \frac{2x}{1+x^2} \right )\, {\rm d}x$$

Solution

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Integral with floor function

Evaluate the integral:

$$I=\int_{0}^{1}\left ( \left \lfloor \frac{2}{x} \right \rfloor-2\left \lfloor \frac{1}{x} \right \rfloor \right )\, {\rm d}x$$

Solution

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Integral with logarithm

Let $n \in \mathbb{N}, \; n >2$  then prove that:

$$\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\log \left(\frac{1}{x}\right)}{\left ( 1+x \right )^n}\, {\rm d}x = \frac{1}{n-1}\sum_{k=1}^{n-2}\frac{1}{k}$$

Solution

Friday, July 24, 2015

Coxeter integral

Evaluate:

$$\int_{0}^{\pi/4}\tan^{-1}\sqrt{\frac{\cos 2\theta}{2\cos^2 \theta}}\, {\rm d}\theta$$

Solution

Integral arising from Fourier series

Evaluate:

$$\int_0^{2\pi} \ln^2 \left( 2 \sin \frac{x}{2} \right)\, {\rm d}x$$

Solution

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Improper integral involving floor function

Evaluate the integral:

$$\mathcal{L}_1=\int_{0}^{\infty}\left \lfloor x \right \rfloor e^{-x}\, {\rm d}x$$

Solution

Integral of floor function

Evaluate the integral:

$$K_n = \int_{-n}^{n} \left \lfloor x \right \rfloor\, {\rm d}x$$

Solution

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Curve and line integrals

Let $\gamma$ be defined as $\gamma(t) = e^{-t} (\cos t, \sin t ), \;\; t \geq 0$.

a) Sketch the graph of the curve.
b) Evaluate the line integrals:

$$ \begin{matrix} &  \displaystyle ({\rm i})\; \oint_{\gamma}\left ( x^2 +y^2 \right )\, {\rm d}s &  & ({\rm ii}) \displaystyle \oint_{\gamma} (-y, x)\cdot {\rm d}(x, y) \end{matrix}$$

Solution

Friday, May 1, 2015

From Russian Mathematical Olympiad

Evaluate:

$$  \int_0^1 \frac{\arctan \dfrac{x}{x+1}}{\arctan \dfrac{1+2x-2x^2}{2}}\,\,{\rm d}x$$

Solution:

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Improper integral

Let $n \in \mathbb{N}$. Evaluate the integral:

$$\int_0^\infty \frac{{\rm d}x}{(1+x^2)^n}$$

Solution:

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Integral involving a logarithm

Evaluate the integral:
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{x}\ln \left ( \frac{x^2+2kx \cos b+k^2}{x^2+2kx \cos a+k^2} \right )\,dx $$

whereas $0\leq a, b \leq \pi, \;\; k>0$.

Solution: