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Half-Blood

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The question is attached- otherwise its Q49, p178 in cambridge- i remember that I solved it before but I can't remember how.
The "free" solutions from the guy with the Russian-sounding name didn't have it... so can someone with a complete set of solutions and/or is uber smart help me out? ;)

Cheers, :wave:
 

Mattamz

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first you need the subsitution
u=x - π/2
du = dx

and also to recognise that:
cosx = cos(u + π/2)
= cos(u)cos(π/2) - sin(u)sin(π/2)
= - sin(u)

then get you to first part, then since its odd and the intergral is between a and -a (in this case pi/2) its equal zero.
 

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