## siddarth95 2 years ago Help prove this integral

1. siddarth95

$\int\limits_{0}^{\pi/2}\frac{ dx }{ \sin x + \cos x } = \frac{ 1 }{ \sqrt{2} } \ln \ \frac{ \sqrt{2}+1 }{ \sqrt{2}-1 }$

let u=sin x +cos x du=cosx-sinx dx

$\int \frac{1}{ \cos x+\sin x}dx$ multiply by cos x-sin x both numerator and denominator

$\int \frac{\cos x-\sin x}{\cos^2x-\sin^2x} dx=\int \frac{\cancel{\cos x-\sin x}du}{\cos 2x}\frac{du}{\cancel{\cos x-\sin x}}$

$\int \frac{du}{\cos 2x}=\int \sec 2x=\ln|\sec 2x+\tan 2x|$/2

error i never substituted u

7. Meepi

I don't have time to put an explanation here, but use the substitution u = tan(x/2): http://www-math.mit.edu/~djk/18_01/chapter24/section03.html

8. Meepi

9. experimentX

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10. siddarth95

its all good .. thanks for the responses :)

11. experimentX

there's one another way to do it .. change all trigs into half angles, and change sines and cosines into tan and sec .. you should end up something like|dw:1362841238898:dw|

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