MATH 0240 Midterm: MATH 240 3c3-Strategy-Integra_Stu-21
Document Summary
As we have seen, integration is more challenging than differentiation. In nding the deriv- ative of a function it is obvious which differentiation formula we should apply. But it may not be obvious which technique we should use to integrate a given function. Until now individual techniques have been applied in each section. No hard and fast rules can be given as to which method applies in a given situation, but we give some advice on strategy that you may nd useful. A prerequisite for strategy selection is a knowledge of the basic integration formulas. In the following table we have collected the integrals from our previous list together with several additional formulas that we have learned in this chapter. It is useful to know them all, but the ones marked with an asterisk need not be memorized since they are easily derived.
