How do you find the antiderivative of e^(2x)(sin x)?

2 Answers
Dec 18, 2016

inte^(2x)sinxdx=1/5e^(2x)(2sinx-cosx)+C

Explanation:

I=inte^(2x)sinxdx

We should try integration by parts. Typically when assigning values of u and dv, we want to choose a function for u that will get simpler as we differentiate it. However, we see that e^(2x) will stay being an exponential function and sinx will bounce back and forth through trigonometric functions.

In fact, we see it doesn't really matter which we choose for u and which for dv. On a whim, let:

{(u=e^(2x),=>,du=2e^(2x)dx),(dv=sinxdx,=>,v=-cosx):}

Then:

I=uv-intvdu

I=-e^(2x)cosx-int(-cosx)(2e^(2x)dx)

I=-e^(2x)cosx+2inte^(2x)cosxdx

Perform integration by parts once more. Again choose e^(2x) as u.

{(u=e^(2x),=>,du=2e^(2x)dx),(dv=cosxdx,=>,v=sinx):}

I=-e^(2x)cosx+2[uv-intvdu]

I=-e^(2x)cosx+2uv-2intvdu

I=-e^(2x)cosx+2e^(2x)sinx-2intsinx(2e^(2x)dx)

I=-e^(2x)cosx+2e^(2x)sinx-4inte^(2x)sinxdx

Notice that we have the integral we started out with on both sides of the equation now--that is, we can write:

I=-e^(2x)cosx+2e^(2x)sinx-4I

Solve for I treating the entire integral like we would any other variable:

5I=-e^(2x)cosx+2e^(2x)sinx

5I=e^(2x)(2sinx-cosx)

I=1/5e^(2x)(2sinx-cosx)

inte^(2x)sinxdx=1/5e^(2x)(2sinx-cosx)*C

Jul 30, 2017

int \ e^(2x)sin(x) \ dx = e^(2x)(2/5sinx- 1/5cosx) + c

Explanation:

Another approach when dealing with integrals of the form:

I_1 = int \ e^(ax)sin(omega x) \ \ , or \ \ I_2 = int \ e^(ax)cos(omega x)

Is to use some intuition to determine the form of the solution.

Irrespective of the trig function, the results are analogous, so wlog let us consider only I_1. If we use Integration by parts we find that we can decompose I_1 as follows:

I_1 = A_1e^(ax)cos(omega x) + A_2 \ int \ e^(ax)cos(omega x)

Which doesn't help much until we apply Integration By Parts a second time, giving:

I_1 = A_4e^(ax)sin(omega x) + A_5e^(ax)cos(omega x) + A_6 \ int \ e^(ax)sin(omega x)

Or:

I_1 = A_4e^(ax)sin(omega x) + A_5e^(ax)cos(omega x) + A_6 I_1

Which is now an algebraic equation which can be solved for I_1

I_1 = e^(ax)(A_7sin(omega x) + A_8cos(omega x))

Knowing this, we can start with an assumption of the integral result and differentiate it to see if it works, thus:

Assume a solution of the form:

y= e^(2x)(Asinx + Bcosx)

Differentiating wrt x and applying the product rule we get:

dy/dx = e^(2x)(Acosx-Bsinx) + 2e^(2x)(Asinx + Bcosx)
" " = e^(2x)((A+2B)cosx+(2A-B)sinx)

We want dy/dx = e^(2x)sinx, so equating coefficients of sine and cosine we get:

cosx: \ A+2B=0
sinx: \ 2A-B=1

Solving these simultaneous equations we get

A=2/5, \ B=-1/5

Thus we have:

y= e^(2x)(2/5sinx- 1/5cosx)

Hence as this is an antiderivative of our initial integral, and we have:

int \ e^(2x)sin(x) \ dx = e^(2x)(2/5sinx- 1/5cosx) + c