To find out this basic integral
∫π0sin(x)1+sin(x)dx
I though of two methods :
Method 1:
I started by multiplying and dividing by 1−sin(x) and then manipulating it one easily gets -
∫π0(sec(x)tan(x)−(tan(x))2)dx
Which is quite easy to calculate and gives value of π−2
I do not have any problem with this method , even though it took me some time to solve it.
Method 2 :
This was first thing I had thought of :
To let sin(x)=t and then when I tried to change the limits of integral I found that this substitution makes both upper and lower limits as t=0 which would give The value of above integral = 0 , according to the property
∫aaf(x)dx=0.
But the previous method gives answer of π−2 then what is wrong with the method 2 . Is that substitution incorrect ? But how and why ?
Answer
The sine function is not an injective function over the interval (0,π). If you want to apply the substitution sin(x)↦z, you have to break the integration range in halves: this because a valid substitution is given by a diffeomorphism, not just a differentiable map.
In simple words, you are allowed to state that
∫baf(x)dx=∫g−1(b)g−1(a)f(g(s))g′(s)ds
only if g is an injective function over the involved integration range, and sin(x) is not injective over (0,π). Otherwise you would get ∫π0sin(x)dx=0 and that is clearly wrong.
A possible way to go is: since the sin(x) function is symmetric with respect to the point x=π/2,
∫π0sin(x)dx1+sin(x)=2∫π/20sin(x)dx1+sin(x)=2∫10tdt(1+t)√1−t2.
That is correct, even if not the most efficient way for computing such integral.
A more efficient way is to set x=2arctant2 (aka Weierstrass substitution) to get
16∫+∞0tdt(4+t2)(2+t)2
that can be tackled through partial fraction decomposition.
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