Find the value of the closed form of the above integral to 3 decimal places.
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Although contour integration could be used straight away, the fact that the function ( z 2 + 1 ) 3 z e i z has a triple pole at z = i makes the calculations involved. It is slightly simpler to intergrate by parts first, so I ; = ∫ 0 ∞ ( x 2 + 1 ) 3 x sin x d x = [ − 4 ( x 2 + 1 ) 2 sin x ] 0 ∞ + 4 1 ∫ 0 ∞ ( x 2 + 1 ) 2 cos x d x = 8 1 ∫ R ( x 2 + 1 ) 2 e i x d x and so, applying contour integration to a large radius semicircle in the upper half plane, centred at the origin, we have I = 8 1 × 2 π i R e s z = i ( z 2 + 1 ) 2 e i z = 4 1 π i ( d z d ( z + i ) 2 e i z ) ∣ ∣ ∣ ∣ ∣ z = i = 4 1 π i ( ( z + i ) 2 i e i z − ( z + i ) 3 2 e i z ) ∣ ∣ ∣ z = i = 4 1 π i ( − 4 e i − 4 e i ) = 8 e π making the anwswer 0 . 1 4 4 4 6 5 9 1 8 7 .