6.2 Integration by Substitution M.L.King Jr. Birthplace, Atlanta, GA Greg Kelly Hanford High School Richland, Washington Photo by Vickie Kelly, 2002
The chain rule allows us to differentiate a wide variety of functions, but we are able to find antiderivatives for only a limited range of functions. We can sometimes use substitution to rewrite functions in a form that we can integrate.
Example: We can find new limits, and then we don’t have to substitute back. new limit We could have substituted back and used the original limits.
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