Chapter 08 · Applications of Integrals
08.09
Tricky Integrals
Absolute values, symmetry, a reflection trick and some clever rewriting: shortcuts for integrals that look harder than they are.
About 15 minutes
You'll learn to
- →Integrate absolute values and piecewise functions
- →Use symmetry to drop the odd part of an integrand
- →Use the substitution x → a + b − x
- →Rewrite an integrand by multiplying by one or adding zero