Integral of ln(x) with Feynman's trick!

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  • @IustinThe_Human
    @IustinThe_Human 5 років тому +854

    I feel like destroying an ant with a cannonball

  • @michaelc.4321
    @michaelc.4321 5 років тому +1170

    My favorite way to evaluate this integral is to recognize that this is just negative the integral of e^x from negative infinity to zero.

    • @SMEEST55
      @SMEEST55 5 років тому +40

      Rotating the graph is the graph of the inverse. ln(x) and e^x are inverses.

    • @SMEEST55
      @SMEEST55 5 років тому +61

      Actually it is the reflection.

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 5 років тому +51

      @@SMEEST55 Yes, a reflection in the line y = x.
      Fred

    • @SD19951
      @SD19951 5 років тому +16

      It would be nice to explain intuitively( without formulas) why e^-x and xe^-x have the same area from 0 to infinity..(as this integral suggests)

    • @hypnogri5457
      @hypnogri5457 5 років тому +4

      Simone Dartizio
      Draw it on a piece of paper and see for yourself.
      Its pretty much just reflected on both the x and y axis

  • @MH-cg8uy
    @MH-cg8uy 5 років тому +1430

    My favorite way to evaluate this integral is with my right hand.

    • @Dr.Eximious
      @Dr.Eximious 2 роки тому +41

      Mine I with my left(yes I'm replying after 2 years)

    • @autf2_6
      @autf2_6 2 роки тому +6

      Selim Akar🔥🔥🔥 görse duygulandırdı

    • @herobrine1847
      @herobrine1847 Рік тому +17

      I can’t do math rn because my right hand is busy 😢

    • @lakshshastry8278
      @lakshshastry8278 Рік тому +13

      @@herobrine1847uhh 🤨

    • @herobrine1847
      @herobrine1847 Рік тому +3

      @@lakshshastry8278 your hand is next

  • @regulus2033
    @regulus2033 5 років тому +351

    I think, just in case someone doesn’t know one “but” of Feynman’s technique, you should remind that it is necessary to check the uniform convergence of considered integral in order to be able to differentiate it under the integral sign.

    • @mrnogot4251
      @mrnogot4251 3 роки тому +11

      Thank you. That exact thing had crossed my mind.

    • @regulus2033
      @regulus2033 3 роки тому +11

      @@mrnogot4251 By the way, recently I've watched video where it was told that in 99% cases you can just try to use the technique and, if you got the finite answer, then everything is OK and differentiation under the integral sign is allowed.

    • @RohexMoneyjivan
      @RohexMoneyjivan 3 роки тому +44

      @@regulus2033 physicists usually never bother checking that things converge lol

    • @luisescarcega
      @luisescarcega 3 роки тому +16

      I suggest you to search about the dominated convergence theorem and a corollary that (roughly speaking) states that if you have a function f(t,x) such that its partial derivative with respect to t is, in absolute value, uniformly bounded by an integrable function g(x), then the Feynman technique holds

    • @frenchimp
      @frenchimp 3 роки тому +5

      @@regulus2033 Maths is not about being correct 99% of the time...

  • @stephenkormanyos766
    @stephenkormanyos766 3 роки тому +38

    Wow. Splendid. I think this “trick outside the box” is in fact a much more intuitive approach at understanding Feynman integration in general. Really nicely done. Thank you!
    Steve K.

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss 5 років тому +301

    Well, my trick for this would be to swap coordinates.
    y = lnx ; x = eʸ
    When lnx → 0⁺, y → -∞; when lnx = 1, y = 0.
    And lnx is negative in the (open) interval of integration, while eʸ is positive in its interval. So there will be a sign change, and:
    ∫₀¹ lnx dx = - ∫₋₀₀⁰ eʸ dy = -1
    Done. But it could be argued that this is equivalent to integration by parts.
    EDIT: And I see mine is not the only comment using this trick.
    Fred

    • @That_One_Guy...
      @That_One_Guy... 3 роки тому +9

      You missed a y there (that was supposed to be in front of e^y)

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 3 роки тому +12

      @@That_One_Guy... I missed more than that. My 3rd line doesn't follow from my 2nd line. Those 2 lines should have been:
      y = lnx ; x = eʸ
      When x → 0⁺, y → -∞; when x = 1, y = 0.
      The rest is OK; it works as written. All I'm really doing, is flipping the graph about the y=x axis, then integrating the area w.r.t. y.
      Fred

    • @HahaHongKong
      @HahaHongKong 3 роки тому

      @@That_One_Guy... you are right, although not matters on result

    • @andreaq6529
      @andreaq6529 2 роки тому +7

      How the hell did you write those symbols

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 2 роки тому +3

      @@andreaq6529 Some of them are available in macOS using option & command keys, or Keyboard Viewer; some of them I've copy-pasted from other people's posts.
      In Windows, there's a way to generate them as Unicode characters, but I don't know the details of that; I think you can discover them by poking around the web a bit.

  • @sohelzibara8166
    @sohelzibara8166 3 роки тому +33

    thanks for a well-thought-out and well executed video. i' m a mathematician myself and i really enjoyed it.

  • @178fahimahmed7
    @178fahimahmed7 5 років тому +53

    X^t was a brilliant idea in the solution.

    • @pbj4184
      @pbj4184 3 роки тому +5

      It's a more general way of producing ln()s inside integrals. So if you want (ln(x))^2 in an integral, you just introduce x^t, evaluate the integral and then differentiate it twice

  • @Metalhammer1993
    @Metalhammer1993 5 років тому +53

    "remember a partial derivative means everything not t is a constant" I love scaring my students about multivariable calc and when we start with partial derivatives they all go like "wait: it´s that easy?" They were expecting some ultimate hell. And then i always go like "i never said the maths would be hard. but getting that curved d right will be a nightmare for anybody not used to cursive" They usually want to kill me^^ and yeah that was a really clever idea to just reverse Feynman´s technique. (and please call it a technique trick sounds cheap. Usub for me is a "trick" elevated to the status of a technique by usefulness. Feynman´s technique is the same incredibly useful and also a very elegant use of the leibnizrule. (strictly speaking they are not the same as you know better than me. It is strictly speaking allowing us to switch Integral- and differential operators.Feynman is still rthe guy who thought "well I can crack a couple of tough nuts with that"^^)

  • @chirayu_jain
    @chirayu_jain 5 років тому +35

    x^t was really clever

    • @pbj4184
      @pbj4184 3 роки тому

      It's a more general way of producing ln()s inside integrals. So if you want (ln(x))^2 in an integral, you just introduce x^t, evaluate the integral and then differentiate it twice

  • @BloobleBonker
    @BloobleBonker 2 роки тому +4

    I love the fact that it's Feynman's "trick", and not his theorem or other such posh word. He would have loved that!

  • @bluemonstrosity259
    @bluemonstrosity259 2 роки тому +6

    My favourite way to integrate ln X is to call it 1 times ln X . Then you can call the integral of 1xln(X) xln(x) - integral of x(1/x) which turns out to be xln(x)-x+c

    • @BLVGamingY
      @BLVGamingY 2 роки тому

      that's called integration by parts and this video isn't about it

    • @black_crest
      @black_crest Рік тому

      @@BLVGamingY you missed his joke

    • @BLVGamingY
      @BLVGamingY Рік тому

      @shragdharkunal1258 if yes, i apologize profusely. may i get a short explanation

  • @decib3ls_dB
    @decib3ls_dB 5 років тому +10

    When I saw the thumbnail I tried to do it without parts and here is my approach. 1: Use kings law for definite integrals to convert it to the integral of ln(1-x). Expand that(Taylor series) integrate the polynomials and then plug values. You will get a infinite series that is fairly easy to evaluate and hence get the answer -1.

    • @animeshmajumdar66
      @animeshmajumdar66 5 років тому

      I did the same thing

    • @joo_21
      @joo_21 Рік тому

      hi this is very old, but i hope you could possibly explain in more detail what you did to solve it this way please :)

    • @idrisShiningTimes
      @idrisShiningTimes Рік тому

      ​​​​@@joo_21applying king's property/change of coordinates gives the integrand ln(1-x).
      Using the Taylor series of ln(1-x) gives -sum((x^n)/n) from n = 1 to inf.
      Consider the sequence of functions {f_n} where f_i (x) = (x^i)/i. We see that this is a sequence of polynomials which are continuous over Real numbers, and the limits of integration are finite, hence the functions in this sequence are integrable wrt x and their integrals do not diverge.
      Hence by fubini's theorem, we can interchange the integration and summation and we get (with the integral now): -sum(integral((x^n)/n)) = -sum((1^{n+1} - 0) / ((n+1)n)) = -sum(1/((n+1)n)), from n = 1 to inf.
      This is a standard telescoping sum.
      Consider the partial summation -sum(1/((n+1)n)) from n = 1 to k. We can rewrite this as -(sum(1/n) - sum(1/(n+1))) from n = 1 to k, which is equal to -(1 - 1/(k+1)). Taking the limit of this partial sum as k goes to infinity yields the summation: -sum(1/((n+1)n)) from n = 1 to inf which is -1

  • @deyomash
    @deyomash 4 роки тому +11

    While trying this myself I just realised that you can also find it by realising that since exp(x) is the inverse of ln(x), which means its the graph reflected in y=x. If you interpret the required integral as the area, it will be te same as the integral of exp(x) from -inf to 0. this has a nice convergence to 1. Since ln(x)< 0 on [0,1] this means the area is -1. and hence the integral is -1. Might sound a shabby but ey.

    • @reycali6124
      @reycali6124 2 роки тому

      what a negative area means?

    • @tommasochiti4237
      @tommasochiti4237 2 роки тому

      @@reycali6124 it means that the area is under the x axis.

    • @tommasochiti4237
      @tommasochiti4237 2 роки тому

      it's just a fancy notation to make you understand where it's located on the plan.

  • @skatethe4881
    @skatethe4881 2 місяці тому

    I've been just recently learning Feynman's trick, and my brain went melty when you started going backwards 🫠 rewatching 😂

  • @tiziocaio101
    @tiziocaio101 5 років тому +54

    Thank you. This helped a lot.
    I’m trying to learn Feynman’s technique, but in my class at school we didn’t even study logarithms and exponential so I’m learning calculus by myself.

    • @nournote
      @nournote 5 років тому +6

      "x.ln(x) - x" is a primitive of ln(x)

    • @tiziocaio101
      @tiziocaio101 5 років тому +3

      Noureddine I know.

    • @TheEcwin
      @TheEcwin 5 років тому +4

      The same way Feynman did!:D

    • @pbj4184
      @pbj4184 3 роки тому +1

      Wait how are you learning calc if you haven't learned precalc? Or did you mean your school hasn't covered precalc yet?

    • @tiziocaio101
      @tiziocaio101 3 роки тому +2

      @@pbj4184 The second one. One year and smt ago we were at precalc at school, now we are covering derivatives

  • @FreshBeatles
    @FreshBeatles Рік тому +1

    Thank you, its hard to find a full fledged explanation of this technique online.

  • @egeyaman4074
    @egeyaman4074 5 років тому +42

    Are there any integral questions we can't solve by laplace but we can solve by feynman's technique?

    • @MuPrimeMath
      @MuPrimeMath  5 років тому +18

      Here's an example of a difficult integral with Feynman's technique: ua-cam.com/video/Y6ZQMgk3A8s/v-deo.html

    • @farhannoor3935
      @farhannoor3935 4 роки тому +1

      sure, Fresnel Integral, Gaussian Integrals, Ahmed's integral, integral of Sinx/x from 0 to \infty to name a few exceptional ones.

    • @pbj4184
      @pbj4184 3 роки тому +1

      @@farhannoor3935 The last one's called the Dirichlet integral

  • @최문규-o4d
    @최문규-o4d 5 років тому +14

    We can solve this by inverse function relationship between exp(x) and lnx
    Intrgral 0 to 1 lnxdx= -[integral 0 to infinite exp(-x) dx = exp(-x)]0 to infinite = -1

  • @WizardCell
    @WizardCell 4 роки тому +1

    Wow, the method looks fire, and the way you're teaching it is even more fire!

  • @noway2831
    @noway2831 4 роки тому +3

    I used your method to evaluate the indefinite integral of ln|x|^k. I used the Leibniz rule for integration and the general Leibniz rule. I let I(t) = integral of x^t such that the nth derivative of I(t) = integral of the nth partial derivative of x^t = integral of ln|x|^n * x^t dx. I then used the power rule to evaluate I(t), and the general leibniz rule to evaluate the nth derivative of that. I simplified where I could, replaced every n with a k and t with a zero, then ended up with a finite sum (assuming k is finite). Very nice I thought.

  • @Woah9394
    @Woah9394 11 місяців тому +1

    It's just eazier to integrate the function and evaluate
    But this trick is very useful for function whose integral isn't elementary(like e^x²)

  • @merveille271
    @merveille271 Рік тому

    This integral equations of ln(x) and others are well explained and comprehended from the professor's explanation. Truly yours Sir!

  • @starpawsy
    @starpawsy 2 роки тому +2

    This feels like something I should have learnt (or at least memorised) in 1971, when Vince Pauley introduced me to the wonder of integral calculus. Alas, that was too long ago.

  • @anthonyjulianelle6695
    @anthonyjulianelle6695 3 роки тому +3

    My students would be asking why I was making it so hard when Integration by Parts does it much easier. I usually introduce differentiating inside the integral with an example where the integrand does not have an integrand which is an elementary function.

  • @ianrobinson8518
    @ianrobinson8518 Рік тому

    Feynmans method can be expressed conceptually as differentiation in t followed by integration in x followed by integration in t to back out the original differentiation.
    Your method merely reverses the order of operations, viz integration in t followed by integration in x followed by differentiation in t to back out the original integration.
    One might say it’s still Feynmans method but in reverse. However note there is one other difference. There is no requirement to evaluate C since it essentially vanishes with the differentiation at the end.
    Which approach will prove effective depends on whether the derivative or antiderivative of the function is easier to integrate.
    Yours is a clever insight of what’s going on under the hood with Feynmans method. This is the second time I’ve seen a video on the unorthodox usage but I’ve seen a few other more complicated written examples where it comes into play.

  • @ciiil8802
    @ciiil8802 6 місяців тому +1

    Differentiating Integration of Integral

  • @omchavan5664
    @omchavan5664 Рік тому +1

    Is it only me with this unique methode
    Take xlnx, differentiate it you get lnx + 1
    Now integrate again so
    Int(lnx) + int(1) = xlnx
    Int(lnx) = xlnx - x = x(lnx-1)
    Now put limits zero to 1
    x(lnx - 1) tends to zero when x tends to zero
    And at 1 the value is -1
    So answer -1

  • @evat267
    @evat267 4 роки тому +2

    Cant wait to use this in my multivariable calc class for absolutely no reason since we havent done this yet and Im not sure we will

  • @carlosaugustosarmentoferre376
    @carlosaugustosarmentoferre376 4 дні тому

    It is certainly fine to know Feynman's trick applied to integrals, he used it exactly as it stands, as a trick! One of his lemma was to shut up and calculate, simple that! But we must have in mind that in the end it might make sense, not just use it as a bypass. This is my message. The true knowledge is in calculus itself. I still use calculus as it was taught to me long time ago: u-substitution, integration by parts or partial fractions.

  • @domc3743
    @domc3743 3 роки тому +1

    You can make substitute x=u+1 and then define I(t)=ln(ut+1) and then I(0) = 0

  • @CL2K
    @CL2K 3 роки тому +1

    Pretty slick trick.
    Knowing how the integral from -inf to 0 of e^x is 1, it makes sense intuitively that this integral evaluates to -1.

  • @joriaancollombon6938
    @joriaancollombon6938 5 років тому +4

    This was really neat!

  • @user-wu8yq1rb9t
    @user-wu8yq1rb9t 2 роки тому +2

    Honestly, I didn't expect this video could be *Super Cool* ... But it was!
    *Great* ... *Sure Cool* ...
    (Actually you teach another way of thinking about Math and it's great too.)
    I love Feynman (he's my favorite scientist) and he brings me here and now I'm so happy.
    Great example and definitely the different example of Feynman's Method.
    Thank you so much ❤️

  • @shafin3365
    @shafin3365 Рік тому +1

    Nice approach.... Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩

  • @aleksandervadla4840
    @aleksandervadla4840 5 років тому +6

    Why just dont use: lnx=lnx*1, and use udv=uv-vdu

    • @MuPrimeMath
      @MuPrimeMath  5 років тому +8

      This video was meant as a fun challenge to see if we could solve the integral with Feynman's trick, without using integration by parts!

    • @tiziocaio101
      @tiziocaio101 5 років тому +2

      Aleksander Vadla I was chilling and I was thinking a non standard way to integrate this integral. I tried Feynman’s technique but I failed, so I asked this guy.

  • @edsonstarteri6313
    @edsonstarteri6313 3 роки тому

    Let 0

  • @thelosts9940
    @thelosts9940 Рік тому +1

    Isnt the integral of lnx like xlnx-x at least thats what i learned at school ?

    • @thelosts9940
      @thelosts9940 Рік тому

      And as long as you know this you can solve any integral with any sort of lnx with integral rules.

  • @abdelwahabazeddine7035
    @abdelwahabazeddine7035 Рік тому +1

    Sans diminuer de l'importance de la méthode de Feynman qui évite le recours à l'analyse complexe, mais dans le cas présent c'est comme tirer une mouche avec un canon.
    La méthode classique consiste à faire le changement de variable log(x) =u, x=exp(u), dx=exp(u)du
    Soit int(uexp(u)du) entre les bornes -inf et 0. Une intégration par parties donne directement le résultat recherché -1.

    • @omar.ma7
      @omar.ma7 Рік тому

      ou encore calculer directement la primitive de lnx en posant u'=1 et v=lnx on a diretement xlnx-x et par le calcul evident de la limite aux bord de l'integrale on obtient -1

    • @abdelwahabazeddine7035
      @abdelwahabazeddine7035 Рік тому +1

      @@omar.ma7
      Bien vu ! Pour la limite pathologique xlog(x) au voisinage de 0, faire le changement de variable x=1/y, ce qui ramène à la limite de -log(y) /y au voisinage de l'infini, laquelle est égale à 0, résultat bien connu.

  • @derblaue
    @derblaue 5 років тому +2

    My intuitive awnser to ln(x)dx from 0 to 1 was to integrate e^x from ln(0) = -inf to ln(1) = 0. e^(-inf)-e^0 = -1

  • @tgx3529
    @tgx3529 4 роки тому +6

    I think, this solution is very complicated. If you need the result without integration by parts and without substitution, you can use , exp x is inverse function to ln x. Then - integral(exp x) from -infinity till 0 = integral from lnx for x = 0 till 1

  • @VibingMath
    @VibingMath 5 років тому +1

    Thank you Mu Prime! That x^t is awesome!

  • @sihamamir548
    @sihamamir548 5 місяців тому

    it's very easy to evaluate this intégral by parts you complicated it man

  • @michaelfredericks6970
    @michaelfredericks6970 5 років тому +1

    Wonderfully useful way feynman technique. Thank you for the video sir!

  • @Woowoo1373
    @Woowoo1373 Рік тому

    I love your BpRp shirt!! Really nice video!!!

  • @pawebielinski4903
    @pawebielinski4903 Рік тому

    This is surprisingly cool.

  • @lueaxiom4860
    @lueaxiom4860 5 років тому +5

    i love your t-shirt "Calculus Finisher" which i feel like to win calculus marathon ^^

  • @peterchindove7146
    @peterchindove7146 Рік тому

    Very well explained. Good job.

  • @Karkov695
    @Karkov695 3 роки тому

    Why can you derivate under integral sign? And why the function I(t) is continuous in t=1?

  • @harish6787
    @harish6787 3 роки тому +1

    Brilliantly done thanks for it sir

  • @marcele.6450
    @marcele.6450 Рік тому

    I haven't been able to keep up since 4:25. Why can we say that I(t) = Integral x^t? dx? I've been able to do it myself until the point where I(t) = ln(t) + c

  • @ConnorJScholten
    @ConnorJScholten 5 років тому +1

    Real clever mate. Well explained.

  • @LlamaBG
    @LlamaBG Рік тому

    you're a great teacher

  • @Комрон-л8ф
    @Комрон-л8ф Рік тому +1

    I actually think that the formula of udv is more suitable for this integral , but the idea of the video is nice too

  • @RigoVids
    @RigoVids 2 роки тому +3

    I have yet to take calc 3, I’m wearing with baited breath for spring semester to come, and I hope this kind of content will become available to me soon. I’m seeing partial derivatives, the part of calculus I didn’t get to in high school, and I am finally gonna start learning new stuff. It’s been ages since I’ve felt motivated like this.

  • @russellthescout9639
    @russellthescout9639 10 місяців тому

    Thanks for this. I now know how to change the difficulty settings for calculus 2. Got so bored at easy mode.

  • @victormagaud2967
    @victormagaud2967 2 роки тому

    don't we have a primitive for ln(x) ? xln(x)-x ? So we just have to works with limits

  • @unrealtimepcr4661
    @unrealtimepcr4661 5 років тому +3

    how do we know we can perform the partial derivative inside the integral?

    • @MuPrimeMath
      @MuPrimeMath  5 років тому +2

      To prove that we can switch the partial derivative and the integral, we would have to establish that x^t and x^t lnx (the derivative) are both continuous on the region of integration.
      For rigor, we would have the integral go from some lower bound "a" to 1, then take the limit as a approaches 0 so that lnx is continuous on the whole range of integration!

  • @pedromonteiro1556
    @pedromonteiro1556 Рік тому

    Excellent explanation! Thanks.

  • @maalikserebryakov
    @maalikserebryakov Рік тому

    HOW VERY INTERESTING
    MY eyes hurt so much watching integration videos nonstop for 12 hours+ but just one more and I shall
    Finally sleep

  • @JohnBoen
    @JohnBoen 2 роки тому +5

    I just started to reacquaint myself with calculus, and new videos are beginning to roll through. I've watched quite a few hours of mathy stuff this month, and you do great work.
    You provide excellent descriptions of the thought process. That was a great explanation of the Fineman approach. I can tell - I understood your explanation while you gave it, and I could almost replicate it on a piece of paper without looking back to the video.
    Where were you 35 years ago - when I could have used you in DifEq?!?
    Great work :)

  • @anotheraggieburneraccount
    @anotheraggieburneraccount 3 роки тому +1

    My favorite way to evaluate this integral is Symbolab

  • @gabrielalmeida5047
    @gabrielalmeida5047 2 роки тому +1

    Thank You

  • @eytansuchard8640
    @eytansuchard8640 Рік тому

    Good work!

  • @marcrindermann9482
    @marcrindermann9482 2 роки тому

    Now the really important question is where do I get that wallpaper? 😆

  • @jojo1124
    @jojo1124 5 років тому +1

    Hi, could you provide a link to learn this technique?

  • @tatawhillman3783
    @tatawhillman3783 4 роки тому +1

    This is brilliant, thank you

  • @Taric25
    @Taric25 Рік тому +1

    Isn't ln(x) one of the integrals we should have memorized? It's -x+x•ln(x). Evaluated at 0 is 0. Evaluated at 1 is -1+1•ln(1). ln(1) is zero, so the integral is equal to -1+0-0=-1.

  • @TschumiQu
    @TschumiQu Рік тому

    for finding a point of I(t), can't we just plug in I(1/x) so that the integral is zero?

    • @MuPrimeMath
      @MuPrimeMath  Рік тому

      No because t is a constant inside the integral, so it can't depend on x. It needs to stay the same as x goes from 0 to 1!

  • @miguelriesco466
    @miguelriesco466 Рік тому

    How do you know you can put the derivative inside the integral?

  • @Superman37891
    @Superman37891 5 років тому +20

    6:37 “FEYnd” lol 😂😂😂

  • @merveilmeok2416
    @merveilmeok2416 5 років тому +1

    Forget the mathematics. You are a fine THINKER. You could do anything in life.

  • @wiz9186
    @wiz9186 5 років тому

    Here we can also think the integral given is the area traced the the curve lnx and -ve y and +ve x axis so its inverse fuction e^x curve will have the same area between -infinite to 0 so the integral becomes Integration of e^x from 0 to -infinite (as y becomes +ve in this)= -1

  • @epennrogers
    @epennrogers Рік тому

    x=e^(-u)
    x in (0,1) implies u in (infinity,0)
    dx=-e^(-u)du
    ln(x)=-u
    integral is just -Gamma(2)=-1

  • @ChemistryAtomistic
    @ChemistryAtomistic 5 років тому

    Integral is a kind of an area. How it can be negative if the function isn’t set at the zero?

    • @MuPrimeMath
      @MuPrimeMath  5 років тому +2

      When the function is negative (the area is below the x-axis), we define the integral to be negative!

  • @gloystar
    @gloystar 5 років тому +1

    Well I guess it's much easier if you just use ( t ) and limit as t approaches 0, similar to the way we deal with improper integrals. Good video though!

  • @micha6589
    @micha6589 Рік тому

    ok, but how do you know that the initial integral converges? If it diverges, you can get some bad results, I think.

  • @spudhead169
    @spudhead169 2 роки тому

    I'm sure this is considered thinking outside the box to you, but to me it's climbing out of the box, getting on a rocket ship and landing on Pluto. Feynman's technique scares me as it is without futzing around with it like that. I just hope I can eventually reach this kind of level.

  • @ЛеонидРубинштейн
    @ЛеонидРубинштейн 5 років тому

    Дифференцировать под знаком интеграла можно только если он сходится равномерно. Differentiating under a sign an integral is possible only if he meets evenly.

    • @IoT_
      @IoT_ 2 роки тому

      Не используй машинный переводчик.

  • @parthbhave4195
    @parthbhave4195 5 років тому

    I was watching this blackpenredpen video about how he integrates integral from 0 to 1 of (x-1)/lnx dx where the question was from a JEE test and its hard to wrap my head around the fact that you can integrate an integral at the bounds where the function is not defined itself. I tried it myself using taylor series expansion for e^u after making a substitution of x=e^u and then kind off finding limit putting A and B in as the bounds where A tends to 1 and B tends to zero. But that did not work. He used the Feynman method but its hard to wrap my head around the fact the integral had a finite value which otherwise seemed nonexistent.

  • @Gianni_X
    @Gianni_X Рік тому

    Tizio caio, hai il mio rispetto🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

  • @cbunix23
    @cbunix23 2 роки тому

    By the way, Feynman used this technique when he was working on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. He solved in one day a problem that other physicists were stuck on for month.

  • @bwahf4685
    @bwahf4685 3 роки тому

    That's brilliant 👏... thanks for this beautiful tip (outside the box 🤪). 😉

  • @euva209
    @euva209 Рік тому

    Here's an inside the box way of getting the result without using by parts. Since the integral of e^x from infinity to 0 is symmetric to that of ln x from 0 to 1, we know the area of the latter will be the negative of that of the former.

  • @misterlau5246
    @misterlau5246 2 роки тому +1

    Hmmm just a linear transformation would suffice

  • @eugenioguarino2651
    @eugenioguarino2651 Рік тому

    Interesting and smart. But there is a much easier way to calculate that integral: knowing that logarithm is the inverse function of the exp, that integral equals minus integral from minus infinity to zero of exp(x) dx, which is easily seen to equal minus 1.

  • @kkahdnshsndjd4574
    @kkahdnshsndjd4574 3 роки тому

    Isnt it same as minus infinity to 0 e^x

  • @daeyounglim1310
    @daeyounglim1310 5 років тому

    I could watch this video til the end thanks to the cute instructor. Wish I'd had a cute math tutor like him

  • @mathematicslover1936
    @mathematicslover1936 Рік тому +1

    Using integration by parts
    U=ln x first function
    V=1 second function
    Apply u. V formula of integration with get
    X(ln x - 1) ৷¹
    0
    =-1

  • @folsomboy86tbone15
    @folsomboy86tbone15 4 роки тому

    I didn't read through every comment, so apologies if this is a repeat. When you integrated wrt t within the x integral, why didn't this produce "+ C" in the antiderivative, which would in turn integrate to "+ Cx" and then + C(1-0) when evaluated?

    • @folsomboy86tbone15
      @folsomboy86tbone15 4 роки тому

      The constant would certainly disappear after the ensuing differentiation, but would this be correct nonetheless?

  • @JeeAspirant-um4kz
    @JeeAspirant-um4kz 2 роки тому

    Good stuff!

  • @renesperb
    @renesperb 2 роки тому

    I can't see the the advantage of forcing a certain method , in particular in such a simple case. Write the integrand as 1* lnx and integrate by parts and you are finished immediately.

  • @debblez
    @debblez 5 років тому +2

    Could you not just take the integral of e^x from -inf to 0?

    • @MuPrimeMath
      @MuPrimeMath  5 років тому +1

      You absolutely could do that! I thought it would be fun to challenge ourselves by trying to solve the integral with only Feynman's trick, since we have to be a little creative.

  • @labiquette4821
    @labiquette4821 Рік тому

    You can't derivate the function inside the integral without any justification, you have to use the theorem of derivation of an integral with parameter, there are hypothesis that you must verivy before using it

  • @carstenholtfort7694
    @carstenholtfort7694 2 роки тому

    Very beautiful demonstration! But you have to be careful with the bound x=0! In almost every formula or transformation of your theory you have to exclude x=0! And the definition of intrgral_0^1 lnx is
    Lim_a->0^+ Integral_a^1 lnx dx. But if you calculate that definition with the antiderivative x lnx - x you find with the rule if De L'Hópital lim_a->0^+ (a lna) =0 and the limit value really is -1 . So a strict mathematical analysis of this indefinite integral Integral_0^1 lnx dx really equals -1. I am delighted! 😀

  • @sanketgore2515
    @sanketgore2515 5 років тому

    Nice work✌️✌️

  • @HamidOumimoune-sb6zq
    @HamidOumimoune-sb6zq Місяць тому

    Its very easy to calculate this integral by using integration by part in few steps.

  • @OleJoe
    @OleJoe 5 років тому +1

    Pretty cool! 😎

  • @tcoren1
    @tcoren1 4 роки тому

    Isn't this actually the regular version of feynman's trick, with the way you originally tried to solve it being the alternative?
    In physics I originally learned the trick as a way to quickly calculate the integral x^2*e^(-x^2) by taking the derivative of e^(-ax^2) with respect to a.
    Since feynman was a physicist it seems likely this is how the trick came to be

    • @MuPrimeMath
      @MuPrimeMath  4 роки тому

      You might be right! I've never looked into the origin of the technique.

  • @Pernambrock
    @Pernambrock 2 роки тому

    How do you know math being a left-handed ?