# Mathematica does not solve this integral [closed]

I want to compute the integral of a polynomial in t, which I know an analitical solution exist. But Mathematica give me as result the input, not the result of the integral:

I already know this since it is the input but I want to compute the value of this integral.

Here is the code if you want to reproduce this (copy-pasted from mathematica, this is indeed ugly):

x[t_] := a0 + a1*t + a2*t^2 + a3*t^3 + a4*t^4 + a5*t^5;

a0 = x0;
a1 = v0;
a2 = acc0/2;
a3 = -((20 x0 - 20 xf + 12 v0 tf + 8 vf tf + 3 acc0 tf^2 - accf tf^2)/(2 tf^3));
a4 = -((-30 x0 + 30 xf - 16 v0 tf - 14 vf tf - 3 acc0 tf^2 + 2 accf tf^2)/(2 tf^4));
a5 = -((12 x0 - 12 xf + 6 v0 tf + 6 vf tf + acc0 tf^2 - accf tf^2)/(2 tf^5));

Jp = 1/2*Integrate[(x[t] - xf)^2, {t, 0, tf}];
Jv = 1/2*Integrate[(x'[t] - (vf + v0)/2)^2, {t, 0, tf}];
J3 = alpha*Jp + (1 - alpha)*Jv


Do you have an idea of what I am doing wrong?

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## closed as off-topic by belisarius, Simon Woods, Artes, m_goldberg, rm -rf♦Feb 18 at 14:52

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Don't use Subscripts until you master Mathematica really well –  belisarius Feb 18 at 2:50
Your integral evaluates without problems, try starting a fresh Mathematica session –  belisarius Feb 18 at 7:28
This question appears to be off-topic because it is non-reproducible. The integral evaluates OK –  belisarius Feb 18 at 7:29

It works fine on my MMA(Version 9).

x[t_] := a0 + a1*t + a2*t^2 + a3*t^3 + a4*t^4 + a5*t^5;
a0 = x0;
a1 = v0;
a2 = acc0/2;
a3 = -((20 x0 - 20 xf + 12 v0 tf + 8 vf tf + 3 acc0 tf^2 - accf tf^2)/(2 tf^3));
a4 = -((-30 x0 + 30 xf - 16 v0 tf - 14 vf tf - 3 acc0 tf^2 + 2 accf tf^2)/(2 tf^4));
a5 = -((12 x0 - 12 xf + 6 v0 tf + 6 vf tf + acc0 tf^2 - accf tf^2)/(2 tf^5));
Jp = 1/2*Integrate[(x[t] - xf)^2, {t, 0, tf}];
Jv = 1/2*Integrate[(x'[t] - (vf + v0)/2)^2, {t, 0, tf}];
J3 = alpha*Jp + (1 - alpha)*Jv


(1/55440)alpha tf (3 acc0^2 tf^4 + 3 accf^2 tf^4 + accf tf^2 (tf (52 v0 - 69 vf) + 181 (x0 - xf)) + 4 (tf^2 (104 v0^2 - 133 v0 vf + 104 vf^2) + 3 tf (311 v0 - 151 vf) (x0 - xf) + 2715 (x0 - xf)^2) + acc0 tf^2 (5 accf tf^2 + 69 tf v0 - 52 tf vf + 281 x0 - 281 xf)) + 1/2 (1 - alpha) ((acc0^2 tf^3)/630 + 1/630 acc0 accf tf^3 + ( accf^2 tf^3)/630 + 1/30 acc0 tf^2 v0 + 1/105 accf tf^2 v0 + ( 67 tf v0^2)/140 - 1/105 acc0 tf^2 vf - 1/30 accf tf^2 vf + ( 33 tf v0 vf)/70 + (67 tf vf^2)/140 + (acc0 tf x0)/42 - ( accf tf x0)/42 + (10 v0 x0)/7 + (10 vf x0)/7 + (10 x0^2)/( 7 tf) - (acc0 tf xf)/42 + (accf tf xf)/42 - (10 v0 xf)/7 - ( 10 vf xf)/7 - (20 x0 xf)/(7 tf) + (10 xf^2)/(7 tf))

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You are right, it works fine. The code was actually a little bit longer, but I suppose this is because I used longer execution path (a1, ..., a5 was not initially assigned like this, but came from a Solve function). Thank you for your help –  Alexandre Willame Feb 26 at 19:10