Integral – U-Substitution

In this post, I’ll be going through how to solve an integral using u-substitution.  This is not an exhaustive document about all the tips and tricks for u-substitution.  I’m simply writing this post as a reference for a future video/post about aligning torque, and I specifically needed to solve this integral.  If you would like a more neatly formatted document, you can find the attached PDF at the end of the post.  The integral we will be solving can be seen below.

(1)   \begin{equation*} \int x\sqrt{1-x^2}dx \end{equation*}

As the name suggests, we will be defining a variable, u, and substituting it into the integral to hopefully make it easier to solve.  Let’s define u as seen below.

(2)   \begin{equation*} u = 1-x^2 \end{equation*}

We will also need its derivative.

(3)   \begin{equation*} du = -2xdx \end{equation*}

We will need to rearrange this slightly so that we can plug it into the original integral.
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(4)   \begin{equation*} -\frac{1}{2}du = xdx \end{equation*}

Let’s plug both of the above expressions into the original integral.

(5)   \begin{equation*} \int x\sqrt{1-x^2}dx = \int\frac{-1}{2}\sqrt{u}du = \frac{-1}{2}\int u^{\frac{1}{2}}du \end{equation*}

This integral is easy to solve, as shown below.

(6)   \begin{equation*} \frac{-1}{2}\int u^{\frac{1}{2}}du = \frac{-1}{2}\left[\frac{u^\frac{3}{2}}{\frac{3}{2}}\right] = \frac{-1}{2}\left(\frac{2}{3}\right)u^\frac{3}{2} = \frac{-u^\frac{3}{2}}{3} \end{equation*}

We had defined u in terms of x earlier, so we can simply plug that expression back into the above equation to get the final result of the integral.

(7)   \begin{equation*} \int x\sqrt{1-x^2}dx = \frac{-\left(1-x^2\right)^\frac{3}{2}}{3} \end{equation*}

Integral_U_Substitution.pdf
Integral_U_Substitution.pdf

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