Try using complex analysis!

Calculus Level 5

0 x sin x ( x 2 + 1 ) 3 d x \large \int_0^\infty \frac{x\sin x}{(x^2+1)^3} \, dx

Find the value of the closed form of the above integral to 3 decimal places.


Hint: You may find this wiki useful.


The answer is 0.144466.

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Mark Hennings
Feb 19, 2017

Although contour integration could be used straight away, the fact that the function z e i z ( z 2 + 1 ) 3 \frac{z e^{iz}}{(z^2 + 1)^3} has a triple pole at z = i z=i makes the calculations involved. It is slightly simpler to intergrate by parts first, so I ; = 0 x sin x ( x 2 + 1 ) 3 d x = [ sin x 4 ( x 2 + 1 ) 2 ] 0 + 1 4 0 cos x ( x 2 + 1 ) 2 d x = 1 8 R e i x ( x 2 + 1 ) 2 d x I ;\ = \; \int_0^\infty \frac{x \sin x}{(x^2 + 1)^3}\,dx \; = \; \Big[ - \frac{\sin x}{4(x^2 + 1)^2} \Big]_0^\infty + \tfrac14\int_0^\infty \frac{\cos x}{(x^2 + 1)^2}\,dx \; = \; \tfrac18\int_\mathbb{R} \frac{e^{ix}}{(x^2 + 1)^2}\,dx and so, applying contour integration to a large radius semicircle in the upper half plane, centred at the origin, we have I = 1 8 × 2 π i R e s z = i e i z ( z 2 + 1 ) 2 = 1 4 π i ( d d z e i z ( z + i ) 2 ) z = i = 1 4 π i ( i e i z ( z + i ) 2 2 e i z ( z + i ) 3 ) z = i = 1 4 π i ( i 4 e i 4 e ) = π 8 e \begin{aligned} I & = \tfrac18 \times 2\pi i\, \mathrm{Res}_{z=i} \frac{e^{iz}}{(z^2+1)^2} \; = \; \tfrac14\pi i \left(\frac{d}{dz} \frac{e^{iz}}{(z+i)^2}\right)\Bigg|_{z=i} \\ & = \tfrac14\pi i \left(\frac{ie^{iz}}{(z+i)^2} - \frac{2e^{iz}}{(z+i)^3}\right)\Big|_{z=i} \; = \; \tfrac14\pi i \Big(-\frac{i}{4e} - \frac{i}{4e}\Big) \; = \; \frac{\pi}{8e} \end{aligned} making the anwswer 0.1444659187 \boxed{0.1444659187} .

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...