When taking an antiderivative of a dot product of two vectors, can I refactor as the addition of two

Karina Trujillo

Karina Trujillo

Answered question

2022-06-24

When taking an antiderivative of a dot product of two vectors, can I refactor as the addition of two antiderivatives of each individual vector?
For example, if I have:
[ sin x cos y + sin y cos x ] d x
can I separate this into:
( [ sin x cos x ]   d x ) + ( [ sin y cos y ]   d x )

Answer & Explanation

marktje28

marktje28

Beginner2022-06-25Added 22 answers

Explanation:
You shouldn't be changing the cosines' arguments. The simplest solution is to rewrite your problem as sin ( x + y ) d x = cos ( x + y ) + C ( y )

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