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1-Visitor
August 14, 2016
Question

Integral question. Unable to solve

  • August 14, 2016
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Hi All,

I couldn't able to get this solved by Mathcad.

Can anyone explain to me why?

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2 replies

12-Amethyst
August 15, 2016

Hi.

there are 2 problems:

the first is that you are trying to calculate tan^2 multiplied by(x)

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this should look like

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the second is that the tan function is discontinuous over the range that you have specified

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you don't specify what the numbers a and b are, Mathcad default is the arguments to trig functions are in radians.

If you are wanting them to be in degrees then you can change the definitions for a and b to

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and this allows the integral to converge.

Hope this helps

Andy

hlim1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
August 18, 2016

Hi Andy

It really helps a lot!

Thank you for spending your precious time to explain.

Best regards,

Hong Shan