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 June 19th, 2014, 02:41 PM #1 Newbie   Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Changing the intergrator Hi there, I am studying for an exam, but I'm having problems with an integral, which is: 1/2 * integral(0 to pi)(y sin y^2) dy = 1/4 * integral(0 to pi)(sin y^2) dy^2 I have had some material on Riemann-Stieltjes integrals, which I can apply here, but I should not be using that for this course, as it is a more introductory course. I am curious if there are simple rules to change the integrator. Thanks in advance.
 June 19th, 2014, 05:09 PM #2 Math Team   Joined: Dec 2013 From: Colombia Posts: 7,511 Thanks: 2514 Math Focus: Mainly analysis and algebra $\newcommand{\d}[1]{\mathbb{d}{#1}}$ Write $x = y^2$ then $\d{x} = 2y \d{y}$, $y = 0 \implies x=0$ and $y= \pi \implies x=\pi^2$ And wee thus have$$2 \int \limits_{0}^{\pi}y \sin{y^2} \d{y} = \int \limits_{0}^{\pi^2} \sin{x} \d{x}$$ which has an odd upper limit, but otherwise all is well.

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