Consider the integral
$$\int \sec^4(x)\tan(x)$$
Now right off the bat I see two ways of solving this.
- Let u=$\sec(x)$
2.Use integration by parts
Now doing the first way results in the integrand looking like
$$\int u^3du=\frac{1}{4}\sec^4(x)+C $$
Which is correct but it's not the answer I'm looking for, so instead we'll do it the second way.
$$\int \sec^2(x)\cdot\sec^2(x)\tan(x)dx$$
$$\int\left(\tan^2(x)+1\right)\sec^2(x)\tan(x)dx $$
$$\int\sec^2(x)\tan^3(x)+\sec^2(x)\tan(x)dx$$
Now this is where I got stuck, because I don't know whether to continue with Pythagorean identities or to factor a term out and solve for that. Or perhaps even break the two up and create two integrals.
Answer
Write your integrand in the form$$\tan(x)(\tan^2(x)+1)\sec^2(x)$$ and substitute $$u=\tan(x)$$ and you will get $$\int u(u^2+1)\,du$$
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