Asked • 08/22/22

How to find an antiderivative for a complicated trig function involving a square root.

For the function:

f(x) = sin(x)cos3(x)√(16+cos2(x)) find the area under the curve from x = 0 to x = π/2.

The hint given is to use trigonometric substitution to find the antiderivative of f(x).

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