a classic integral without the standard tool -- antiderivative of ln x without integration by parts

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  • @gravitas802
    @gravitas802 2 місяці тому +37

    Fubini didn't invent changing the order of integration so you could avoid integration by parts smh 😂

  • @mtaur4113
    @mtaur4113 2 місяці тому +17

    Since you are just looking for an antiderivative, you could simplify by using a=1 from the beginning and include +C at the end. The double integral is a simple triangle with only one region.

    • @mtaur4113
      @mtaur4113 2 місяці тому +1

      This is actually done for arctan, where a=0 bases the triangle at the zero of arctan.

    • @nonentity168
      @nonentity168 Місяць тому

      It was a bit confusing when I tried to know the general case for any value of a. It turns out to be definite integral, and we're finding the antiderivate so it doesn't matter what value we select for a.

  • @thephysicistcuber175
    @thephysicistcuber175 2 місяці тому +72

    I'm pretty sure this can be used to prove integration by parts.

    • @holyshit922
      @holyshit922 2 місяці тому +17

      but derivative of product is much simpler proof
      and better from teaching point of view

    • @thephysicistcuber175
      @thephysicistcuber175 2 місяці тому +4

      @@holyshit922 if the functions are not continuous I'm pretty sure this proof still holds.

    • @pierrot31511
      @pierrot31511 2 місяці тому +1

      He can also derivate xln(x)

    • @merijnmartens6952
      @merijnmartens6952 2 місяці тому +13

      ​@@thephysicistcuber175
      The method from the video still assumes you know the derivative of the integrand. So the integrand has to be differentiable, hence continuous.
      Yes, you can use it to prove integration by parts, but the assumptions are the same as with the derivative of product method:
      The integrand has to be a product of two functions, one of which is integrable and the other differentiable.

    • @DarinBrownSJDCMath
      @DarinBrownSJDCMath 2 місяці тому +2

      Hmmm... seems like this is integration by parts after all, no?

  • @Bodyknock
    @Bodyknock 2 місяці тому +24

    9:21 An interesting minor side note, at the end of the solution the expression a - a ln(a) is replaced by an arbitrary real number C. But recall that this derivation assumed in the beginning that a>0, so technically C can only take on values possible under that constraint. Which means you should probably prove that a - a ln(a) can in fact result in any real number for a>0. It pretty clearly can take on all negative numbers as a grows to infinity, so the main thing to prove is that the limit as a approaches 0+ of a - a ln(a) is positive infinity, which is equivalent to seeing if lim a ln(a) as a approaches 0+ is negative infinity.
    Lim a ln(a) = lim ln(a) / a ⁻¹
    (By LHR) = lim -a ⁻¹ / a ⁻² = -lim 1/a⁻¹ = -lim a = 0 as a approaches 0+.
    But that means for a>0 the resulting constant is non-negative, so the derivation in the video doesn’t quite cover all the actual possible constants C could take in the indefinite integral.

    • @TheEternalVortex42
      @TheEternalVortex42 2 місяці тому +3

      There's no general requirement that the arbitrary constant must be able to take any value. For example, the integral of sin x clearly can only have bounded values for its constant.

    • @Bodyknock
      @Bodyknock 2 місяці тому +6

      @@TheEternalVortex42 Exactly my point. We know that the indefinite integral of ln(x) can in fact have an arbitrary constant, but the derivation of the antiderivative in the video doesn't quite establish that.

    • @etienneparcollet727
      @etienneparcollet727 2 місяці тому +1

      That limit is 0.

    • @Bodyknock
      @Bodyknock 2 місяці тому +1

      @@etienneparcollet727 What limit is 0? The limit I was talking about in my comment isn't.

    • @etienneparcollet727
      @etienneparcollet727 2 місяці тому +3

      @@Bodyknock 0 ln(0) is 0 famously. Makes all kind of things work like entropy. You made a mistake with your exponents it simplifies to a not 1/a.

  • @matematicacommarcospaulo
    @matematicacommarcospaulo 2 місяці тому +2

    I liked this approach

  • @goodplacetostop2973
    @goodplacetostop2973 2 місяці тому +12

    13:34

  • @YO-in2uw
    @YO-in2uw 2 місяці тому

    We can calculate the double integral as the big triangle (1 to x) minus the small triangle (1 to a). The latter is constant to x and bounded, so it can be treated as -C.

  • @dougrife8827
    @dougrife8827 2 місяці тому

    There’s a simpler derivation: Notice that integrating ln(u) from 1 to x equals the area of the rectangle x*ln(x) minus the area under the inverse function e^u between zero and ln(x). That is, this definite integral equals x*ln(x) - (x -1) or, x*ln(x) - x + 1. In this case the constant of integration happens to be unity but that’s of no importance since the antiderivative is the same x*ln(x) - x. This method of integration is very similar to implicit differentiation. It takes advantage of the fact that the antiderivative of the inverse function is known or easy to evaluate just as implicit differentiation makes use of the derivative of the inverse function to find the derivative of the given function.

  • @RSLT
    @RSLT 2 місяці тому

    Cool Method ❤

  • @v270498
    @v270498 2 місяці тому

    Is It possible use that thecnic in the sec integral ?

  • @GrouchierThanThou
    @GrouchierThanThou 2 місяці тому

    Since you could have chosen any value for a > 0, why not just choose a = 1 and get rid of the rectangular area?

  • @JCCyC
    @JCCyC 2 місяці тому +2

    I inevitably (as always happens when you release a Calculus video) started to play randomly with integrals in Desmos, and eventually came across what seems to be a fun fact: the integral from zero to infinity of 1/(x^x) seems to be 2. Worth a video? Edit: it MAY not be exactly 2.

    • @SylvainBerube
      @SylvainBerube 2 місяці тому +1

      It seems to converge toward ~1,994955. Fun stuff!

  • @CielMC
    @CielMC 2 місяці тому

    10:57 shouldn't it be the other triangle since u always starts at 0?

  • @Czeckie
    @Czeckie 2 місяці тому

    9:17 I find it curious that not every antiderivative is achieved like that (not every real C has a corresponding value a). I wonder if you can characterize for which functions every antiderivatives can be expressed as a definite integral. We need a surjective antiderivative. Eg. it's possible for x^2, but not possible for x or any bounded function. Can you check for surjectivity of the antiderivative without knowing the antiderivative?

  • @vczh
    @vczh 2 місяці тому

    I don't quite understand why int(lnxdx) = int(intdt, a, x)? Is that because C is replaced with int(intdt, 0, a)? So this technique only works for lnx but not all functions?

  • @leif_p
    @leif_p 2 місяці тому

    If we set I(x) = \int f(t) dt, then I'(x) = f(x) suggests the ansatz I(x) = x*f(x) + g(x).
    Taking the derivative, we get I'(x) = f(x) + x*f'(x) + g'(x) = f(x) => g'(x) = -x*f'(x).
    So if we know f'(x) and x*f'(x) is easier to integrate, we can find I(x).
    E.g. if f(x) = ln(x), then g'(x) = -x*1/x = -1. Then g(x) = -x, so:
    I(x) = \int ln(x) = x*ln(x) - x (+ C). This may also be equivalent to integration by parts.

  • @ayylmao2410
    @ayylmao2410 2 місяці тому

    hmm why would the second part integral has u as lower bound and not a

  • @ClampExpert
    @ClampExpert 2 місяці тому +2

    🔥🔥

  • @get2113
    @get2113 Місяць тому

    What about guess and check? My kids told me that GaC was forbidden in college, which left me unable to help them.

  • @ChaoticNeutral6
    @ChaoticNeutral6 2 місяці тому +2

    Why is the lower bound 1 for the integral representation of ln x?

    • @Noam_.Menashe
      @Noam_.Menashe 2 місяці тому +7

      Because ln1=0

    • @ericbischoff9444
      @ericbischoff9444 2 місяці тому +2

      Because it's the definition of ln x.
      ln 1 = 0 is a consequence of that definition.

  • @victorpaesplinio2865
    @victorpaesplinio2865 2 місяці тому

    Using the inverse function theorem you can get this result. But it kind of uses integration by parts to prove the general result, so I dont think it is fair in this case

  • @scottmiller2591
    @scottmiller2591 2 місяці тому

    I would have used the formula for the integral of an inverse function, which gives the results immediately (in all cases).

  • @bassamxp
    @bassamxp 2 місяці тому

    Just take u = ln x and integrate by part the gamma like function.

  • @leewilliam3417
    @leewilliam3417 2 місяці тому

    Good lesson 😊

  • @ingiford175
    @ingiford175 2 місяці тому

    You said you can do some work to get 0 included. Are you sure? from 0 to any point looks like it has an area of infinity

  • @Oskar-zt9dc
    @Oskar-zt9dc 2 місяці тому +1

    in the first bit you have to assume that a>1!

    • @Oskar-zt9dc
      @Oskar-zt9dc 2 місяці тому

      or do a case where 0

    • @manuelosuna1562
      @manuelosuna1562 2 місяці тому

      Given that lnx is continuous on
      (0,∞), any a>0 suffices for the antiderivative to equal the integral of lnt from a to x.
      In particular, choosing a>1 is what is done in the video but as you pointed out, it will be interesting to see if it is possible to reach the same result taking 0

  • @UltraMaXAtAXX
    @UltraMaXAtAXX 2 місяці тому +2

    Whoa, 6 AM Mike?

  • @Leon.Santiago.Noval.Monteagudo
    @Leon.Santiago.Noval.Monteagudo 2 місяці тому

    interesting

  • @bnbhero6307
    @bnbhero6307 2 місяці тому

    This problem reminds me of a mane stripped lion or one whose powers have been stripped and revoked. Nonetheless, the problem is still solvable.

  • @user-yu1ic2ip4h
    @user-yu1ic2ip4h 2 місяці тому

    so what's standard tool?

    • @xizar0rg
      @xizar0rg 2 місяці тому +2

      A complete reading of the title of the video answers your question.

    • @user-yu1ic2ip4h
      @user-yu1ic2ip4h 2 місяці тому

      @@xizar0rg no answer at all

    • @xizar0rg
      @xizar0rg 2 місяці тому

      @@user-yu1ic2ip4h The structure of the title, "A Classic Integral without the standard tool -- antiderivative of ln x without integration by parts", is "without the standard tool " -- "without "
      If that context is insufficient, perform an internet search on the phrase "what is the standard tool for integrating the natural logarithm".

  • @thenorthernphilosopher
    @thenorthernphilosopher 2 місяці тому

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but you actually did an integration by parts...

  • @SonVu-rw9hh
    @SonVu-rw9hh 2 місяці тому +2

    Maybe we can use the identity G(x)=x*f-1(x)-F(f-1(x)) where F is an integral of f

    • @stephenbeck7222
      @stephenbeck7222 2 місяці тому +1

      Isn’t that just integration by parts?

    • @axeitor
      @axeitor 2 місяці тому +1

      ​​@@stephenbeck7222No, it's a formula used to find the integral of an inverse function

    • @samagraarohan2513
      @samagraarohan2513 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@axeitorits derived from integration by parts :). try it yourself.

  • @wesleydeng71
    @wesleydeng71 2 місяці тому

    I think all integration by parts can be interpreted like this.

  • @atzuras
    @atzuras 2 місяці тому

    no that's not a good place to stop

  • @pandavroomvroom
    @pandavroomvroom 2 місяці тому

    looks awfully like integration by parts tho

  • @isura.m
    @isura.m 2 місяці тому +1

    This is just integration by parts with extra steps

  • @oolesyk
    @oolesyk 2 місяці тому +1

    Slenderman is approaching 💀💀💀

  • @muhammadwasif8820
    @muhammadwasif8820 2 місяці тому

    So stupid and complicated method , to deliver some one good knowldge ..use easy approch. Its harsh method

    • @yoav613
      @yoav613 2 місяці тому

      Yes,but he wants more views , and this gives him alot of viewers.

  • @canyoupoop
    @canyoupoop 2 місяці тому

    I thought you would do some manipulation in expansion