Calculus 8th Edition

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Chapter 7 - Techniques of Integration - 7.6 Integration Using Tables and Computer Algebra Systems - 7.6 Exercises - Page 553: 31

Answer

$$ \int \frac{x^{4} d x}{\sqrt{x^{10}-2}} =\frac{1}{5} \ln \left|x^{5}+\sqrt{x^{10}-2}\right|+C, $$ where $C $ be an arbitrary constant.

Work Step by Step

$$ \int \frac{x^{4} d x}{\sqrt{x^{10}-2}} $$ If we make the substitution $$ u=x^{5} , \quad \text { then } \quad d u=5 x^{4} d x, $$ and we look at the Table of Integrals , we see that the closest entry is number $43 $ with $a^{2}=2$: \begin{aligned} \int \frac{x^{4} d x}{\sqrt{x^{10}-2}} &=\int \frac{x^{4} d x}{\sqrt{\left(x^{5}\right)^{2}-2}} \\ &=\frac{1}{5} \int \frac{d u}{\sqrt{u^{2}-2}} \quad\left[\begin{array}{c} u =x^{5}, \\ d u=5 x^{4} d x \end{array}\right] \\ & \stackrel{43}{=} \frac{1}{5} \ln \left|u+\sqrt{u^{2}-2}\right|+C \\ &=\frac{1}{5} \ln \left|x^{5}+\sqrt{x^{10}-2}\right|+C \end{aligned}
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