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Aus Online Mathematik Brückenkurs 2

We have a product of two factors in the integrand, so a partial integration does not seem unreasonable. There is nevertheless a problem as regards which factor should be differentiated and which should be integrated. If we choose to differentiate x3 (so as to reduce its exponent by 1), we need to find a primitive function for ex2, and how do we do that? If, on the other hand, we integrate x3 and differentiate ex2, we get

x3ex2dx=4x4ex2−4x4ex22xdx=41x4ex2−21x5ex2dx 

which just seems to make the integral harder. The solution is instead to substitute u=x2. If we write the integral as

10x3ex2dx=10x2ex2xdx 

we see that the expression xdx can be replaced by du and the rest of the integrand contains only x in the form of x2. The substitution gives

10x3ex2dx=10x2ex2xdx=u=x2du=x2dx=2xdx=10ueu21du=2110ueudu

We can then calculate this integral be partial integration, where we differentiate away the factor u:

2110ueudu=21ueu10−21101eudu=211e1−0−21eu10=21e−21e1−e0=21e−21e+21=21