Sunday, July 9, 2017

calculus - intfracsinxxdx=sinxlogx?



I know that integration of sinxxdx=Si(x), but when I tried it myself I am getting a different answer. Please check where I am going wrong.



To find:
Closed form of sinxxdx



Integrating by parts:




sinxxdx=sinxlogxcosxlogxdx



Now finding: cosxlogx



cosxlogx=logxsinxsinxxdx



Putting value of cosxlogx back:



sinxxdx=sinxlogx(logxsinxsinxxdx)




2sinxxdx=2sinxlogx



sinxxdx=sinxlogx


Answer



In your second integration by parts, you got the signs wrong (and you forgot a dx). It should be
cosxlogxdx=logxsinxsinxxdx


If you plug this back into your first formula, you get:
sinxxdx=logxsinx(logxsinxsinxxdx)=sinxxdx

which doesn't say much. Basically you did the same integration by parts twice, once in one direction then in reverse. You cannot compute anything like that.


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