Friday, May 25, 2018

integration - Tricky integral? intfracpi20arccos(sinx)dx My answer doesn't match an online calculator



I tried to calculate this integral:
π20arccos(sinx)dx
My result was π28, but actually, according to https://www.integral-calculator.com/, the answer is π28.



It doesn't make sense to me as the result of the integration is xarccos(sinx)+x22+C
and after substituting x with π2 and 0, the result is a positive number.




Can someone explain it? Thanks in advance!


Answer



Yes, your result is correct. For x[1,1],
arccos(x)=π2arcsin(x).
Hence
π/20arccos(sin(x))dx=π/20(π2x)dx=π/20tdt=[t22]π/20=π28.



P.S. WA gives the correct result. Moreover tarccos(t) is positive in [1,1) so the given integral has to be POSITIVE!


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