Timeline for Need help on simplifying the integral of a square root of a polynomial
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| Jun 9, 2016 at 21:59 | comment | added | J. M.'s missing motivation♦ | Yes, since your goal is to maximize the function, the symbolic form isn't very helpful, since you'll end up with a nonlinear transcendental equation to solve anyway. | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 21:49 | comment | added | larry | @J.M., thanks, I didn't know that... Anyway, seems the symbolic form is way too complex, so I'll refer to the numerical method offered by MarcoB. Thanks to you all! | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 18:27 | vote | accept | larry | ||
| Jun 9, 2016 at 10:38 | history | edited | J. M.'s missing motivation♦ |
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| Jun 9, 2016 at 0:47 | history | edited | m_goldberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 23:15 | comment | added | J. M.'s missing motivation♦ | "It's really out of my expectation" - any integral involving the square root of a quartic polynomial is considered an elliptic integral, so that's why you get the functions you saw. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 20:43 | answer | added | MarcoB | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 20:28 | history | edited | MarcoB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 19:54 | history | asked | larry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |