What is the antiderivative of $1/ x^2$ ?

Question

What is the antiderivative of $1/ x^2$ ?

1 Answer

Impact of this question

14552 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2015-06-06T22:33:22

It's as easy as taking the negative exponent and integrate with the exponent rule.

The antiderivative is the same as the integral, and I guess you want to compute $int1/x^2dx$ . Since $1/x^2=x^(-2)$ , let's calculate the integral using the exponent algorythm:

$intx^(-2)dx=x^(-1)/(-1)+C=-1/x+C$

Science

Math

Humanities

... and beyond

What is the antiderivative of $1/ x^2$ ?

1 Answer

Related questions

Impact of this question

Science

Math

Humanities

... and beyond

What is the antiderivative of 1/ x^21/ x^2?

1 Answer

Related questions

Impact of this question

What is the antiderivative of $1/ x^2$ ?