A-LEVEL MATHEMATICS Topic : Integrating and Differentiating Algebraic Fractions

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Integration of any algebraic fraction is quite simple if the denominator is a power of

We can just simplify the numerator to express it as a sum of powers of

divide each term by the denominator so the whole expression is a sum of powers of

then integrate each term individually by adding one to the power and dividing by the new power.
For example,

Find

and

Hence
and

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