Integrate with respect to $x$:
$$\int\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}\sin(\sqrt x)}dx$$
or integrate with respect to $x$:
$$\int\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}\cos(\sqrt x)}dx$$
The question asks to use the substitution $u = \sqrt x$ and show that just one of the following integrals is defined.
I got up to integrating both and getting
the integral of $2/\sin(u)$ and $2/\cos(u)$ but since i got the same answers for both it seems to be wrong. Does anyone know where I've got wrong?
Thanks
Best Answer
$$ \int\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}\sin(\sqrt x)}\,dx= 2\int\frac{1}{\sin(\sqrt{x})}\frac{d}{dx}\left(\sqrt{x}\right)\,dx=\\ 2\int\frac{1}{\sin(\sqrt{x})}\,d\left(\sqrt{x}\right)=\ (u=\sqrt{x})\\ 2\int\frac{1}{\sin u}\,du. $$ Now, watch this YouTube video on how to integrate $\int\frac{1}{\sin{x}}\,dx$ (it's a long process). It should be equal to $\ln\left|\tan{\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}\right|+C$.