Integral leading to the Arctan:
Reciprocal of radical of a general quadratic: Find
.
The absence of a radical sign and the presence of a positive coefficient of x2 suggest using the integral leading to the Arctan.
Let's see if completing the square in the denominator helps:
. Substituting this result, we get
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Let
,
,
. Then I becomes
. Now we use the integral leading to the Arctan to get
. Finally, we express the result in terms of x:
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