Feynman technique: integral of (x-1)/ln(x) from 0 to 1

We will do the integral of (x-1)/ln(x) from 0 to 1 by using Feynman's technique of integration (aka differentiation under the integral sign). This integration technique is usually not taught in calculus classes. Check out the previous integral of ln(x)/(x-1) from 0 to 1: 👉 • integral of ln(x)/(x-1...
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  • @blackpenredpen
    @blackpenredpen6 жыл бұрын

    π^2/6 or ln(2), which one did you guys like more??

  • @MTd2

    @MTd2

    6 жыл бұрын

    π^2/6, because it seems to have nothing to do with the integrand.

  • @olahalyn4139

    @olahalyn4139

    6 жыл бұрын

    yh (pi^2)/6. May I ask where is the circle hiding?

  • @TaleTN

    @TaleTN

    6 жыл бұрын

    ln(2), because it's more musical... :-p

  • @6612770

    @6612770

    6 жыл бұрын

    I love all of them!! You are an EXCELLENT teacher.

  • @hariskayani4703

    @hariskayani4703

    6 жыл бұрын

    blackpenredpen spoiler alert 🙄

  • @PyarMatKaro
    @PyarMatKaro6 жыл бұрын

    Frullani had an integral and Leibnitz made a rule. Differentiation under the integral sign was Feynman's favourite tool

  • @PyarMatKaro

    @PyarMatKaro

    6 жыл бұрын

    If we make the substitution u = ln x then the integrand becomes a fraction with u on the bottom. The result turns out to be a Frullani integral and the general solution to these can also be found with the trick that Feynman used, as shown in this video, where a parameter is introduced and the order of integration is changed. Evaluating it in this way would be a useful study exercise. Hint: consider the integral of e^-bu with respect to b

  • @RAJSINGH-of9iy
    @RAJSINGH-of9iy6 жыл бұрын

    What a coincidence....!!!! Your video is of 14:58 mins, which is an interesting number.When its digits are added,the produces sum multiplied by its reverse give the original number.. 1 + 4 + 5 + 8 =18 and18 * 81 = 1458.There are only 3 non trivials number 81,1458 and 1729 (Ramanujan number 😊😊)...

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wow nice. I did not plan on this one tho. But the previous one, yes.

  • @cubicardi8011

    @cubicardi8011

    6 жыл бұрын

    RAJ SINGH and the previous video length is 17:29 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @palashagrawal1551

    @palashagrawal1551

    4 жыл бұрын

    it is of 14:32...are u blind?

  • @Austin101123

    @Austin101123

    4 жыл бұрын

    0, 1, 81 are the trivial? Are there any others?

  • @Phantomuxas
    @Phantomuxas6 жыл бұрын

    Wow, it's feels great after accidentally finding your channel.

  • @cpgrace1902

    @cpgrace1902

    4 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @nishatmunshi4672

    @nishatmunshi4672

    3 жыл бұрын

    True af

  • @MurakDurak
    @MurakDurak6 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love Feynman's Technique. has to be this one

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Taru nice pick!!

  • @billprovince8759
    @billprovince87596 жыл бұрын

    The approach with Feynman's technique is less familiar to me, so I felt I learned more. So, in terms of "which one I liked," I have to respond with the second one.

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    I see!!!

  • @AndDiracisHisProphet

    @AndDiracisHisProphet

    6 жыл бұрын

    I agree. If you don't know what you could do next, some more examples of this would be nice. I guess.

  • @s.mohsenhashemi585
    @s.mohsenhashemi58511 ай бұрын

    Hi dear, In general case, you should check the conditions. For example, for b -1. Thank you for your videos and explanations.

  • @matthewstevens340
    @matthewstevens3405 жыл бұрын

    This might sound weird, but you can perform a technique called "integration under the integral sign" here: you recognise 1 as x^0 and x as x^1. Remember the derivative of a^x is ln a . a^x. We can simplify the integrand to the integral from 0 to 1 of x^u du. Given the interval , we can switch the order of integration and integrate with respect to x first and the w.r.t u. This gives the result of ln(2) super fast!

  • @david-yt4oo
    @david-yt4oo6 жыл бұрын

    perfect. differentiation under the integral sign is just amazing. if only there were more exames of it...

  • @elieabourjeily8520
    @elieabourjeily85206 жыл бұрын

    To be perfectly honest I like ln (2) more. Because I ve already known the result of the first integral since 2002. Thank Dr and keep going

  • @xxxprawn8374
    @xxxprawn83744 жыл бұрын

    both were amazing and what’s even more amazing is that i was able to do them both, which i didn’t expect at all

  • @seiraeziar8631
    @seiraeziar8631 Жыл бұрын

    best and simplest example of Feynmann techniqe, I've seen many example of Feynmann Integrate but using complicated function (hard to understand for beginner)

  • @alexatg1820
    @alexatg18204 жыл бұрын

    Wait, I'm new to calculus and i think (x-1)/lnx is not defined at x =0 right, or we can just ignore that

  • @Doctor_Drew
    @Doctor_Drew6 жыл бұрын

    What an interesting technique! I've never learned this! Thanks

  • @AndDiracisHisProphet
    @AndDiracisHisProphet6 жыл бұрын

    My cat is also black & white. This version is cooler. Because of Feynman.

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    AndDiracisHisProphet What's the name of ur cat?

  • @divisix024
    @divisix0244 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video, I was stuck with my calculus assignment, exactly what I needed

  • @karimabou6493
    @karimabou64934 жыл бұрын

    I'm in love with integrals bcs of you thanks a lot. It looks hard but you simplify it.

  • @justwest
    @justwest6 жыл бұрын

    I liked both techniques so much, so innovative. Awesome ideas!

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!!!!!!!!

  • @ryaneakins7269
    @ryaneakins72696 жыл бұрын

    Both integrals come out as nice series. Sum of reciprocal squares for the first one, and alternating harmonic series for the second.

  • @TheNets
    @TheNets6 жыл бұрын

    Man, thanks a lot. Your channel solve some problems for me and motivate me to study math. Thanks!

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Luiz Felipe F M Costa this is great to hear!! Thanks!!!

  • @stevenfu2330
    @stevenfu23306 жыл бұрын

    真的很厲害!幫助了我很多,謝謝!Please keep posting those helpful and fun problems! You're amazing!

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    不用客氣 我個人也很喜歡做這些題目!

  • @taruntomar7795
    @taruntomar77956 жыл бұрын

    yeaah part 2 won great well its impossible to figure out by looking at just integrals so awesome great work

  • @jihanhamdan5465
    @jihanhamdan54656 жыл бұрын

    So for b=e-1 The area is 1 :)

  • @vaddiparthyyyogeswara6921
    @vaddiparthyyyogeswara69212 жыл бұрын

    Very good explanation

  • @mascheforza8267
    @mascheforza82675 жыл бұрын

    Sir you saved my homework! thank you a lot!!!! was megahelpfull! =)

  • @pituitlechat3807
    @pituitlechat38076 жыл бұрын

    since ln(2) is the result of the alternating harmonic serie, is it possible to use the first method (or similar) to resolve the second integral?

  • @krukowstudios3686
    @krukowstudios36865 жыл бұрын

    More of these videos with this technique!!!

  • @TheMauror22
    @TheMauror226 жыл бұрын

    So good! This video was cool too, but I think I liked part 1 more tho

  • @pNsB
    @pNsB2 жыл бұрын

    I tried this just from the thumbnail and I actually managed it, I genuinely can’t believe I did that!

  • @bidyutmahapatra075
    @bidyutmahapatra0752 жыл бұрын

    very helpful video on integration topic

  • @dolevronen243
    @dolevronen2434 жыл бұрын

    Very nice video! 13:10 the function isn't defined at x=0 which is one of the values in the integration.

  • @subinmdr
    @subinmdr6 жыл бұрын

    Both are just amazing and so different in technique. Difficult to choose

  • @BloobleBonker
    @BloobleBonker4 жыл бұрын

    This one! Great technique.

  • @chemicalbrother5743
    @chemicalbrother57436 жыл бұрын

    Both are awesome. So I like both equally.

  • @quitecomplex6441
    @quitecomplex64414 жыл бұрын

    You could also use the Laplace transform to solve this integral as well by setting ln(x)=-u. I would say I like π^2/6 more. When I first heard of it, I thought what does pi have to do with the sum of the inverse squares and why is pi squared?

  • @jarikosonen4079
    @jarikosonen40794 жыл бұрын

    The techniques used look quite clear (even I couldn't prove order of integral and derivative could be changed etc.), but too often it might be nearly impossible to see what technique to use.

  • @paolo6219
    @paolo62192 жыл бұрын

    This is a super interesting technique

  • @soutiroy1754
    @soutiroy17545 жыл бұрын

    How do we know that when we should use the Feynman's technique?

  • @louisthurston3067
    @louisthurston30676 жыл бұрын

    Cool! I am ashamed to having substituted and used the taylor series for e^u to get the alternating harmonic series.

  • @riccardoguareschi7115
    @riccardoguareschi71154 жыл бұрын

    So satisfying to watch

  • @aignerreyes7390
    @aignerreyes73903 жыл бұрын

    En qué curso se estudia la técnica de feynman?

  • @frogger9801
    @frogger98016 жыл бұрын

    Got this as a homework problem a day after you uploaded. Thanks a bunch!

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    WOW!

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    What class r u taking that u have to do this as a HW problem?

  • @frogger9801

    @frogger9801

    6 жыл бұрын

    PHYS 306 from Purdue University. It was assigned from Problem 2.2.10 in Shankar's "Basic Training in Mathematics". Screencap: imgur.com/a/DQuxQ

  • @dinarakhaydarova4898
    @dinarakhaydarova48982 жыл бұрын

    SO IMPRESSIVE

  • @GrouchierThanThou
    @GrouchierThanThou6 жыл бұрын

    Feynman's technique wins this battle hands down IMHO. :-)

  • @abhirupgupta7309
    @abhirupgupta7309 Жыл бұрын

    This is soooo good❤

  • @tgx3529
    @tgx35294 жыл бұрын

    I tried to calculate as f(a)=integral from ((x-1)/lnx)*exp(alnx), then f'(a)will be integral from (x-1)x^a, it's 1/(a+2)-(1/a+1), then I integrate it, I will get ln|(a+2)/(a+1)|, for a=0 I have the same result. Is it all right??

  • @astaphe9186
    @astaphe91865 жыл бұрын

    at 13:23 you talk about the 0/ln(0) = 0 but isn't that an improper intergral? Feels like we skipped a step.

  • @timedilatesme
    @timedilatesme6 жыл бұрын

    Hey I use power series firstly i let u=lnx then i wrote down the integral in terms of power series of e^u then in the last i had to substitute infinity in that series and i was like blown up can u tell why did that infinity kinda thing happened...

  • @yahyaguzide
    @yahyaguzide6 жыл бұрын

    I am watching this early in the morning at my breakfast befor going to university, and it realy sweeten up my monday morning XD

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    nakkal seyyah nice!!!!

  • @yahyaguzide

    @yahyaguzide

    6 жыл бұрын

    😄👍

  • @mihaiciorobitca5287
    @mihaiciorobitca52875 жыл бұрын

    i am confus i tried to solve following integral by partial derivatives integral of e^-x*1/x dx like this i set first the integral i(t)=integral of e^-tx*1/x dx i applied next the derivetive with expect to t and i got -1/t*e^-tx so the derivative for t=1 is e^-x and the initial integral becomes -e^-x wtf ??? that's completly wrong becaus ethe derivetive of solution is totaly different by the function i integrated it in the beginig somebode could help me ????

  • @Magic73805
    @Magic738056 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so very much sir.

  • @mathewpv681
    @mathewpv6813 жыл бұрын

    When you Calc I(0) from the definition you are taking x^0 as 1. But we know that the definite Integral is between 0 to 1. at x=0 we will have the indeterminate 0^0?

  • @oussamalbal229
    @oussamalbal2296 жыл бұрын

    π^2/6 is amazing 😍😍😍

  • @spudhead169
    @spudhead1692 жыл бұрын

    I suppose theoretical physicists keep coming up with this stuff when they get stuck on some crazy integrals in the course of their work. Feynman did so much for physics and still chips in with some new math. What a guy.

  • @ian7341
    @ian73416 жыл бұрын

    What happens if the power is -1? Does the integral not converge?

  • @bidal2248
    @bidal22484 жыл бұрын

    VERY IMPRESSIVE.

  • @Fematika
    @Fematika6 жыл бұрын

    This is really cool.

  • @alewis7041
    @alewis70413 жыл бұрын

    Is c being 0 just in this case or always when using feynman technique

  • @frede1905
    @frede19056 жыл бұрын

    That was soo amazing...

  • @quidam3810
    @quidam3810 Жыл бұрын

    Quick question: shouldn't we study the convergence of the integral first ? An then, I wonder how...

  • @jeromesnail
    @jeromesnail6 жыл бұрын

    Brillant! I remember when you used this trick to calculate the integral on sin(x)e^(-bx) :) Could we get a general answer for integral from 0 to t of (x-1)/ln(x), saying I'(b) = t^(b+1)/(b+1)? Or it would be impossible to integrate?

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    jeromesnail it works for 0 to 1 only. Otherwise the integral won't converge

  • @jeromesnail

    @jeromesnail

    6 жыл бұрын

    blackpenredpen OK thank you!

  • @ionutradulazar8984
    @ionutradulazar89845 жыл бұрын

    But can I always put the derivation under the integration ?

  • @jhonvergara6891
    @jhonvergara68914 жыл бұрын

    Help with this integral: Integrate e^[-k*sqrt(1-x^2)] of 0 to infinity ; k>0

  • @swizzbeats1212
    @swizzbeats12125 жыл бұрын

    Love it!

  • @tanmacre
    @tanmacre6 жыл бұрын

    OMG Awesomely :3 ... Can you make a 1vs1 battle?, for example, Dr. Peyam vs you integring some curious integrals. Love yah!

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Then we need to find a judge or something.. btw, he will beat me tho, i know it.

  • @7necromancer

    @7necromancer

    6 жыл бұрын

    The judge would be a clock, fastest wins!

  • @tanmacre

    @tanmacre

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah! ... Faster wins!, and U can make a really hard integrals with more people; idk, just for fun :)

  • @MarkMcDaniel

    @MarkMcDaniel

    6 жыл бұрын

    They would need a third party to come up with the questions, otherwise the one who made them up would know the correct path to the solution.

  • @pranavmisra155
    @pranavmisra1556 жыл бұрын

    This is the first video from this channel which taught me something new.

  • @martinianofaure4270
    @martinianofaure42705 жыл бұрын

    It seems as if I was watching a Flammable maths video

  • @BalaMurugan-hk2gd
    @BalaMurugan-hk2gd3 жыл бұрын

    Wow what a great math

  • @michaeltimpanaro5622
    @michaeltimpanaro56229 ай бұрын

    Question: I was always taught the the Feynman method was easier. It seems like it takes a lot longer??

  • @atiksadatshomik2358
    @atiksadatshomik23584 жыл бұрын

    integration of 1/(x^2-a^2)^2 dx.can you do this?

  • @vkilgore11
    @vkilgore116 жыл бұрын

    Can Dr. Peynam or blackpenredpen do a proof/intuition/discussion of why the Feynman Technique works? Or a resource you can point to?

  • @vkilgore11

    @vkilgore11

    6 жыл бұрын

    Btw I liked the first integral with (pi^2)/6.

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Barbee Island we will work something out.

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Barbee Island not sure when tho. Since we both of lots on our to-do list

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Barbee Island sorry

  • @MS-xp4vt
    @MS-xp4vt4 жыл бұрын

    Finally I understood it

  • @zlatanbrekke6538
    @zlatanbrekke65382 жыл бұрын

    If we integrate I’(b) from 0 to 1 right away we wouldnt have to deal with the C, since the answer falls out from the ∫ₐᵇ f(x)dx = F(b) - F(a). Like this I(1) = ∫₀¹ 1/(b+1)db = ln(b+1)|₀¹ = ln(2) - ln(1) = ln(2), since we can see that ln(1) goes away. The method you show is safer in case we have an integral Where we can’t observe this

  • @cycklist
    @cycklist6 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @NeilMaron
    @NeilMaron6 жыл бұрын

    π^2/6 is my fav

  • @rasraster
    @rasraster2 жыл бұрын

    Love it

  • @brazo98
    @brazo982 жыл бұрын

    Thx a lot dude! Now it makes click and bulb 💡 in my brain 🧠 is on! 🖖🏻🖖🏻🖖🏻🖖🏻perfect 😬😬😬

  • @sawyerandrobbie
    @sawyerandrobbie2 жыл бұрын

    So nice

  • @OriginalSuschi
    @OriginalSuschi4 жыл бұрын

    I like this one more than the other because I actually understood this, althought pi^2/6 is a more special number to me :)))))

  • @General12th
    @General12th6 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe it took us so many centuries to figure this technique out.

  • @AndDiracisHisProphet

    @AndDiracisHisProphet

    6 жыл бұрын

    Feynman was just The Man!

  • @furo822
    @furo8226 жыл бұрын

    when you cancelled out 0^(b+1), you have assumed that b+1>0. So no abs value is needed for ln(b+1). idk if this is correct :3

  • @kaishuro6156

    @kaishuro6156

    4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting , I think if we don't assume that and solve it both ways we could have 2 answers , like pie² / 6 and ln2

  • @wduandy
    @wduandy6 жыл бұрын

    This one it's perfect ;D

  • @killorbekilled4265
    @killorbekilled42654 жыл бұрын

    Wait, why can’t I integrate by parts? Someone help.

  • @ny6u
    @ny6u4 жыл бұрын

    gets me every time !

  • @konstantinospapafilakis9598
    @konstantinospapafilakis95983 жыл бұрын

    Feynman's technique is the best

  • @technicbrasil
    @technicbrasil6 жыл бұрын

    I am taking calc 2 right now , I would like to know on which course will I learn those advanced integral techniques ??

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Honestly, I am not sure. I learned a lot of things on my own. Maybe perhaps in physics? Especially when you have to integrate sin(x)/x And I am sure others can provide their answers here too!

  • @tristancole8158
    @tristancole81588 ай бұрын

    So are you deriving with respect to 1??

  • @ChristAliveForevermore
    @ChristAliveForevermore2 жыл бұрын

    Do you believe we should teach Calculus students this technique at the end of Calc II? It wouldn't be hard to give a brief introduction to partial differentiation just so you can introduce multivariate calculus via this technique. It's a great combination of differential and integral calculus that goes a level deeper than the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, don't you think?

  • @heinzanderson462
    @heinzanderson4626 жыл бұрын

    I liked the power series but this one was good too

  • @ashimchakraborty2908
    @ashimchakraborty29085 жыл бұрын

    it's pretty good

  • @L1N3R1D3R
    @L1N3R1D3R6 жыл бұрын

    I know that you addressed what happens if you have a bound of 0 with ln(x) in the integrand in the last video. My question is, when you're solving for C in this video, you get x^0 in the integrand, which is another problem when x=0. I know that lim x->0 (x^x) = 1, but it just doesn't feel right to apply that here. Can you elaborate on why this is okay?

  • @burk314

    @burk314

    6 жыл бұрын

    When dealing with the improper integral (lets focus on the problem at 0 and ignore the one at 1 for this), we technically turn it into the limit lim(a->0) int_a^1 (x^0-1)/ln(x) dx On this domain [a,1], we have x^0=1 with no issue. Therefore, we compute the integral, getting int_a^1 (x^0-1)/ln(x) dx=0, and then the limit of 0 remains 0. So, yes 0^0 is indeterminate, but we can basically side-step the issue.

  • @L1N3R1D3R

    @L1N3R1D3R

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you two for the explanations! I never liked using the improper integral format unless the discontinuity was in the middle of the curve, but I guess that's needed here.

  • @staffehn

    @staffehn

    6 жыл бұрын

    Right.. improper Riemann integrals are another option. In my explanation I was talking about Lebesgue integrals, though. In both cases the point is that the boundary point 0 is not needed to be defined.

  • @rz7380
    @rz73806 жыл бұрын

    We need calculus3 also

  • @ujjawalbaranwal4725
    @ujjawalbaranwal47254 жыл бұрын

    Please integrate logX/1-x^2 ..please

  • @alwysrite
    @alwysrite6 жыл бұрын

    both equally challenging

  • @jacoboribilik3253
    @jacoboribilik32535 жыл бұрын

    Alternating harmonic series vs the basel problem, your choice.

  • @croxxx3262
    @croxxx32626 жыл бұрын

    I preferred the integral in part 1.

  • @Blackfir333
    @Blackfir3336 жыл бұрын

    This is great :D

  • @blackpenredpen

    @blackpenredpen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!!!!

  • @yatmingcheung2772
    @yatmingcheung27722 жыл бұрын

    It seems like Feynman technique can be treated as a result of interchanging the order of integration of an iterated integral.

  • @Saki630
    @Saki6305 жыл бұрын

    9:56 is that not an error??? 1^(b+1) is not == 1 1^(b+1) = (1^b)*(1^1) THEREFORE its 1^b/(b+1) inside the integral?!

  • @natejl772
    @natejl7724 жыл бұрын

    don't think i didn't notice the supreme flex