Mr. Arc's Integral

Calculus Level 4

Mr. Arc the wizard wants to create an integral. He takes his magic cauldron and adds an asymptote and an interval of R \Bbb R . After sprinkling some salt he waves his wand and suddenly an integral pops out! However Mr. Arc is having trouble with this integral so he asks his witch friend Mrs. Sine. "Ahh 0 1 arcsin x x d x \int^1_0\frac{\arcsin x}x\;\mathrm dx you say?" Mrs. Sine replies. Can you help the wizards and witches of Magic Manifold solve this integral?


The answer is 1.08879.

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1 solution

Haroun Meghaichi
Jul 30, 2014

Integrate by parts to get : 0 1 arcsin x x d x = [ arcsin x ln x ] 0 1 0 1 ln x 1 x 2 d x \int_0^1 \frac{\arcsin x}{x} \ \mathrm{d}x = \left[\arcsin x \ln x\right]_0^1 - \int_0^1 \frac{\ln x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \ \mathrm{d}x Now substitute x = sin t x=\sin t , to get : 0 1 ln x 1 x 2 d x = 0 π / 2 ln ( sin t ) d t - \int_0^1 \frac{\ln x}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \ \mathrm{d}x=-\int_0^{\pi/2} \ln(\sin t)\ \mathrm{d}t Clearly the integral converges (since the first integral converges), then we call it I I and by the substitution y = π / 2 t y=\pi/2-t we get : I = 0 π / 2 ln ( sin t ) d t = 0 π / 2 ln ( cos y ) d y I= -\int_0^{\pi/2} \ln(\sin t)\ \mathrm{d}t = -\int_0^{\pi/2} \ln(\cos y) \mathrm{d}y sum them to get : I = 0 π / 2 ln ( sin ( 2 t ) ) ln 2 d t = x = 2 t π ln 2 2 ( I + π / 2 π ln ( sin x ) d x ) I=-\int_0^{\pi/2} \ln(\sin(2t)) -\ln 2\ \mathrm{d}t \overset{x=2t}{=} \frac{-\pi \ln 2}{2} - \left(I+\int_{\pi/2}^{\pi} \ln(\sin x) \ \mathrm{d}x\right) using the sub x = π / 2 + t x=\pi/2+t on the last integral we get that the last integral is = I =I , then : I = π ln 2 2 + 2 I I = π ln 2 2 1.08879 I =\frac{-\pi \ln 2}{2} +2I\Longrightarrow I= \boxed{\frac{\pi\ln 2}{2} \approx 1.08879}

Nice solution. @Haroun Meghaichi

Anuj Shikarkhane - 6 years, 7 months ago

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