Show that limk→∞ ∫0k sin x sin x2 dx converges.
Solution
We integrate by parts to get ∫0k sin x sin x2 dx = - ∫0k (sin x)/2x d(cos x2) = (cos x2 sin x)/2x |k0 + ∫0k cos x2 ( (cos x)/2x - (sin x)/2x2 ) dx = term 1 + term 2 - term 3.
term 1 obviously converges to 1/2.
For term 3 the integral of the absolute value is less than ∫0k 1/2x2 dx, which converges.
For term 2, we integrate by parts again to get ∫0k (cos x)/4x2 d(sin x2) dx = (sin x2 cos x)/4x2 |0k + ∫0k (sin x2 sin x)/4x2 dx + ∫0k (sin x2 cos x)/8x3 dx.
The first term obviously tends to zero and the second two converge, by comparison of the absolute value of the integrands to 1/x2 and 1/x3.
© John Scholes
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1 Jan 2001