Question: Integrate the following, ∫√tanx+1dx.
Wolfram Alpha returns a non-elementary answer. Can someone please spot the mistake I have made here:
First consider this integral:
∫1(x+1)√x+3dx=−√2tanh−1√x+3√2+c
Wolfram Alpha confirms that result.
Then, we have
I=∫√tanx+1dx,tanx=u+2,dx=dusec2x=du(u+2)2−1=dx(u+3)(u+1)
So this transforms the integral to the first integral on this post, which we can evaluate. Then after evaluation and resubstitution I get:
I=−√2tanh−1√tanx+1√2+c
However differentiating this with Wolfram Alpha gives me a messy trigonometric expression which doesn't seem to be equal (I tested some values in both expressions and get different answers). I also estimated the area under the integral between some values and also obtained different answers using the closed form. Any ideas why?
EDIT: I used the wrong identity. Nevertheless, we can still use this method to integrate sqrt(tanhx integrals). E.g:
I=∫√tanhx+1dx,tanhx=u+2,−dx=dusech2x=du(u+2)2−1=dx(u+3)(u+1)
To obtain:
∫√tanhx+1dx=I=√2tanh−1√tanhx+1√2+c
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