Eric Nicholas K's answer to Elle's Junior College 2 H2 Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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We need to be careful when integrating sin^2 x. We cannot integrate this the usual way we do by raising the power by 1 and dividing by the new power.

In other words.

(sin x)^2

does not integrate to

(sin x)^3 / 3

and using the chain rule reversal

(sin x)^3 / (3 cos x)

does not work either since sin x is non-linear.

As always, my answer might be wrong.
Elle
Elle
3 years ago
Thank u !!