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Title: Calculus
Post by: Uiblis on February 22, 2011, 02:45:26 PM

Hey guys,
Anyone here math whizzes?
Anyone know what the antiderivative of sec θ is?
All Google gives me is "partial fractions" and i don't know what the ----- they are

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: Shadow on February 22, 2011, 02:53:52 PM

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=integrate+secx

For more detail, see here

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~feldman/m121/secx.pdf

Note that the two forms are equivelent, just apply your trig identities

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: Uiblis on February 22, 2011, 04:27:04 PM

Yay!
The second link's awesome!
Thanks Shadow :)

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: The Lady Shael on February 22, 2011, 04:27:33 PM

Shadow's our resident math expert. =)

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: Shadow on February 22, 2011, 04:47:12 PM

For questions of this kind, this forum is excellent:

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewforum.php?f=218&

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: Uiblis on February 22, 2011, 06:19:45 PM

Yeah, I've gotten AMC problems from there, too.

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: Gen. Volkov on February 22, 2011, 07:44:27 PM

QuoteShadow's our resident ~~math expert~~. =)

Physicist.

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: Shadow on February 22, 2011, 08:27:57 PM

Eventually :D

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: Holby on February 23, 2011, 01:52:19 AM

Quote from: Gen. Volkov on February 22, 2011, 07:44:27 PM
QuoteShadow's our resident ~~math expert~~. =)

Physicist.

Volkov is our resident know it all :P

Title: Re: Calculus
Post by: Gen. Volkov on February 23, 2011, 11:53:21 PM

QuoteVolkov is our resident ~~know it all~~

Biologist. ;)

Redwall: Warlords

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