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A Strange Example

Sometimes, along the way, one of the integrals you get (in the form tex2html_wrap_inline430 ) is the same as the original function that you wanted to integrate. In this case, a little algebra will produce the result you are trying to find. Try integrating tex2html_wrap_inline432 .

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At this point, we let tex2html_wrap_inline434 and tex2html_wrap_inline436 so that tex2html_wrap_inline438 and tex2html_wrap_inline440 . This gives us

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Now we simply add tex2html_wrap_inline442 to both sides of the equation and divide by two to get

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Vector Calculus
Sun Aug 3 11:17:56 MST 1997