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 December 19th, 2016, 04:25 PM #1 Member   Joined: Dec 2016 From: - Posts: 54 Thanks: 10 solve this integral? Hi, I was looking to solve the following integral \begin{eqnarray} I=\int dx \frac{1}{x^{2}+a^{2}}\frac{1}{(x+b)^{2}+a^{2}} \end{eqnarray} which is the product of two different Lorentzians. Of course, a and b are constants. My initial idea is to spit each Lorentzian into a sum of two terms, like: \begin{eqnarray} \frac{1}{x^{2}+a^{2}}=\frac{1}{2ai}\bigg(\frac{1}{ x-ia}-\frac{1}{x+ia}\bigg) \end{eqnarray} and the same with the other one, if that might simplify things a bit but I dunno. Is there any closed formula for this? Cheers!
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 Originally Posted by nietzsche Hi, I was looking to solve the following integral \begin{eqnarray} I=\int dx \frac{1}{x^{2}+a^{2}}\frac{1}{(x+b)^{2}+a^{2}} \end{eqnarray} which is the product of two different Lorentzians. Of course, a and b are constants. My initial idea is to spit each Lorentzian into a sum of two terms, like: \begin{eqnarray} \frac{1}{x^{2}+a^{2}}=\frac{1}{2ai}\bigg(\frac{1}{ x-ia}-\frac{1}{x+ia}\bigg) \end{eqnarray} and the same with the other one, if that might simplify things a bit but I dunno. Is there any closed formula for this? Cheers!
$\begin{eqnarray} I=\int dx \frac{1}{x^{2}+a^{2}}\frac{1}{(x+b)^{2}+a^{2}} \end{eqnarray}= \Large \frac{a \log \left(a^2+b^2+2 b x+x^2\right)-a \log \left(a^2+x^2\right)+b \tan ^{-1}\left(\frac{x}{a}\right)+b \tan ^{-1}\left(\frac{b+x}{a}\right)}{4 a^3 b+a b^3}$

 December 19th, 2016, 05:22 PM #3 Math Team   Joined: Jan 2015 From: Alabama Posts: 2,875 Thanks: 766 ietzsche, do you now understand how romsek got that? Looks like a candidate for "partial fractions". Thanks from v8archie Last edited by Country Boy; December 19th, 2016 at 05:24 PM.
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 Originally Posted by Country Boy ietzsche, do you now understand how romsek got that? Looks like a candidate for "partial fractions".
ha, even romsek doesn't understand how romsek got that

I just dumped it into Mathematica and it got spit out.

He just asked for a formula, not how to arrive at it.

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