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#1 2011-07-25 20:01:21
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Exponential integral
Hi,
I was trying a problem from AMM. But to proceed, I need to know whether this integral can be done by hand:
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#2 2011-07-25 20:42:28
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Hi gAr;
I do not think so. Not the indefinite one.
You might be able to do it because it is a definite integral.
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#3 2011-07-25 20:53:17
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Hi bobbym,
Okay.
Even if I could prove it, I end up with an infinite product, even more difficult!
The integral I'm trying is in this page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~tauraso/AMM/amm.html
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#4 2011-07-25 20:56:28
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Re: Exponential integral
Hi;
What problem number is it? What I am doing is looking through a very large table of integrals. If someone has ever done that or a similar one before it might show up there.
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#5 2011-07-25 20:59:46
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Hi bobbym,
It's "Problem 11564 - 04 - By A. Stadler (Switzerland)."
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#6 2011-07-25 21:10:45
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Nothing yet gAr.
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#7 2011-07-25 21:21:40
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Okay, no problem. I tried expanding, substitution etc., but anyway not an easy one.
That guy is very good, solving most of the problems from the monthly!
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#8 2011-07-25 21:30:38
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Hi gAr;
That problem I believe was not solved by anyone.
Anyway it does not look like that integral has an elementary form. Here is why.
The above integral does not have a closed form according to Table of Integrals, Series and Products 7th edition p 390. They give a series for the answer, so no closed form. It is easy to see that your integral can be split into 2 integrals that are of that same form.
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#9 2011-07-25 21:40:19
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Hi bobbym,
Okay, thanks for the info.
Can you evaluate my first post from the series given in the book?
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#10 2011-07-25 21:45:07
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Hi gAr;
I believe so. There a several simpler forms. They do not involve a series but all the answers contain the Ei(x) form. This is called the exponential integral. To save time it was tabulated and named. But it is an integral, so it is not an elementary form.
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#11 2011-07-25 21:48:40
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Okay.
I tried Riemann sum and it became even more difficult!
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#12 2011-07-25 21:52:42
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What I do not like is that when I split the numerator, suddenly the first integral no longer converges. That x in the denominator is now a problem.
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#13 2011-07-25 21:54:41
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Yes, that's a big problem.
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#14 2011-07-25 22:13:32
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Hi;
Here is what they have for integral 3.354 4
I need to put beta = 0 but there are conditions.
Yikes! I just saw it now, it zeroes the argument of the exponential integral! Beta can not be 0.
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#15 2011-07-25 22:19:01
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Is there any of the form:
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#16 2011-07-25 22:21:50
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I am still looking, if it does, then you could use it. A table is a valid way to do an integration.
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#17 2011-07-25 22:28:22
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Computationally, it's easy to verify. But I can't derive it.
I can't search for such equations since search engines ignore the mathematical symbols. Bad!
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#18 2011-07-25 22:30:23
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Bingo!
3.434 2
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#19 2011-07-25 22:41:06
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That's cool!
Does it mention anything more about the integral?
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#20 2011-07-25 22:45:43
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No it does not. It is just a table of tons of them. Most of the ones known.
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#21 2011-07-25 23:01:35
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Hmmm, it would be nice if I could get a way to derive it.
Anyway, now I'm left with the product
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#22 2011-07-25 23:10:26
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Hi gAr;
You can look it up again!?
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#23 2011-07-25 23:12:16
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Yeah, but is it a good way to solve a problem?!
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#24 2011-07-25 23:17:04
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Depends. If you are working on something larger than you do not want to get tied up on a tiny detail. Here, it is not helpful to use a table or a package. But what else is there?
I might be able to change that to a sum but it is more difficult.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#25 2011-07-25 23:23:06
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Evaluating that product would solve the integral.
So the only part which I did here is series expansion.
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