Can you deduce this?

Calculus Level 5

1 cos x 1 + cos x ( r = 0 n ( 1 + sec ( 2 r x ) ) ) d x \large \int \sqrt{\dfrac{1-\cos x}{1 + \cos x}} \left ( \prod_{r=0}^n (1 + \sec (2^r x) ) \right) \, dx

Let f ( n ) f_{(n)} be a function as described above for non-negative integer n n . Let g ( x ) = f ( 4 ) ( x ) g(x) = f_{(4)} (x) . If the solution to g ( x ) = 1 g(x) =1 can be written in the form of 1 16 arccos ( e k ) \dfrac1{16} \arccos (e^k) , find ( k 9 ) ! (|k| - 9)! .

f ( n ) ( 0 ) = 0 f_{(n)}(0)=0 , and take cos x 1 , cos ( n x ) 0 \cos x \ne -1, \cos (nx) \ne 0 .


The answer is 5040.

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1 solution

Rishabh Jain
May 15, 2016

KEEP CALM :-)

Let's generalise P = r = 0 n ( 1 + sec ( 2 r x ) ) \mathfrak{P}=\displaystyle\prod_{r=0}^{n}\left(1+\sec (2^{r}x)\right) . P = r = 0 n ( cos ( 2 r x ) + 1 cos ( 2 r x ) ) = 2 n + 1 r = 0 n ( cos 2 ( 2 r 1 x ) cos ( 2 r x ) ) = ( 2 n + 1 cos ( x / 2 ) cos ( 2 n x ) ) r = 0 n ( cos ( 2 r 1 x ) ) = ( 2 n + 1 cos ( x / 2 ) cos ( 2 n x ) ) ( sin ( 2 n + 1 x 2 ) 2 n + 1 sin x 2 ) = tan ( 2 n x ) cot x 2 \begin{aligned}\mathfrak{P}=&\displaystyle\prod_{r=0}^{n}\left(\dfrac{\cos (2^{r}x)+1}{\cos (2^{r}x) }\right) \\&=2^{n+1}\displaystyle\prod_{r=0}^{n}\left(\dfrac{\cos^2 (2^{r-1}x)}{\cos (2^{r}x) }\right) \\&=\left(\dfrac{2^{n+1}\cos(x/2)}{\cos(2^n x)}\right)\displaystyle\prod_{r=0}^{n}\left(\cos (2^{r-1}x)\right)\\&= \left(\dfrac{2^{n+1}\cos(x/2)}{\cos(2^n x)}\right)\left(\dfrac{\sin(2^{n+1}\frac x2)}{2^{n+1}\sin\frac x2}\right)\\&=\tan\left(2^{n}x\right)\cot\dfrac{x}2\end{aligned} Coming back to integration, substituting P \mathfrak P and using 1 cos x = 2 sin 2 ( x / 2 ) 1-\cos x=2\sin^2(x/2) and 1 + cos x = 2 cos 2 ( x / 2 ) 1+\cos x=2\cos^2 (x/2) so that cot ( x / 2 ) \cot(x/2) term in P \mathfrak P gets canceled and hence integration is:

tan ( 2 n x ) d x \displaystyle\int\tan \left(2^nx\right)\mathrm{d}x = 1 2 n ln ( cos ( 2 n x ) ) + C 0 =-\dfrac{1}{2^n}\ln\left(\cos(2^nx)\right)+\underbrace{C}_0

g ( x ) = f ( 4 ) ( x ) = 1 16 ln ( cos ( 16 x ) ) g(x)=f_{(4)}(x)=-\dfrac{1}{16}\ln\left(\cos(16x)\right)

g ( x ) = 1 x = 1 16 cos 1 e 16 g(x)=1\implies x=\dfrac{1}{16}\cos^{-1}e^{-16}

k = 16 \therefore\large |k|=16

( 16 9 ) ! = 7 ! = 5040 \huge\therefore (16-9)!=7!=\boxed{5040}

As usual neat and nice solution (+1!)

Samarth Agarwal - 5 years ago

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Ohh.... Thank you very much.... ¨ \ddot\smile

Rishabh Jain - 5 years ago

Neat and brilliant as usual! +1! :)

Prakhar Bindal - 5 years, 1 month ago

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But my approach was slightly different towards evaluating that continued product. instead of using product cosine series i multiplied and divided by tan(x/2)

And in general i got that tan(x/2)(1+secx) = tanx

Therefore the Product is recursive and hence evaluates = tan(2^n x)*cot(x/2)

And By the way all the best for JEE . Do well ! :)

Prakhar Bindal - 5 years, 1 month ago

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Yeah! Nice approach and THANKS!! :-)

Rishabh Jain - 5 years, 1 month ago

Shouldn't the integral of tan have a natural logarithm. Please correct the solution. Otherwise it is perfect☺

Anirudh Chandramouli - 5 years, 1 month ago

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Done.... Thanks

Rishabh Jain - 5 years, 1 month ago

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