Jee Calculus problem

Calculus Level 3

1 3 d x ( x + 1 ) ( 3 x ) = π c , c = ? \large \int_{-1}^{3}\dfrac{dx}{\sqrt{(x+1)(3-x)}}=\pi^c\quad,\quad c=\ ?


The answer is 1.

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1 solution

Adarsh Kumar
Sep 15, 2015

Motivation : \text{Motivation}: After thinking for a while and looking at the problem this general form comes to mind: d x a 2 x 2 \int\dfrac{dx}{\sqrt{a^2-x^2}} because of the presence of the square root. Now,we want to convert ( x + 1 ) ( 3 x ) (x+1)(3-x) into the form a 2 x 2 a^2-x^2 ,we can do this by writing one of the two factors in the from ( a z ) (a-z) and the other in the form ( a + z ) (a+z) where z z is a linear function in x x and a a a constant.We see that the sum of the two factors is 2 a = 4 a = 2 2a=4\longrightarrow a=2 hence we get that z = x 1 z=x-1 because then the two factors would become z + 2 z+2 and 2 z 2-z and d x = d z dx=dz ,so the integral becomes, 2 2 d z 2 2 z 2 = sin 1 ( z 2 ) 2 2 = 2 × sin 1 1 = 2 × π 2 = π \int_{-2}^{2}\dfrac{dz}{\sqrt{2^2-z^2}}=\sin^{-1}(\dfrac{z}{2})|_{-2}^{2}\\ =2\times\sin^{-1}1=2\times\dfrac{\pi}{2}=\pi .And done!

Simple good problem. Usually I've seen jee problems require a small tricky generalization. Then u can solve any integral.

Aditya Kumar - 5 years, 9 months ago

This is helpful for such type of problems:
( x a ) ( x b ) = ( x a + b 2 ) 2 ( a b 2 ) 2 \huge \sqrt{(x-a)(x-b)}=\sqrt{{\left(x-\frac{a+b}{2}\right)}^2-{\left(\frac{a-b}{2}\right)}^2}

Rohit Ner - 5 years, 9 months ago

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Nice one!It surely is!

Adarsh Kumar - 5 years, 9 months ago

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