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April 20th, 2008, 07:25 PM
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"You are almost right except u and v are functions of x...if they were different variables you would have to assume one is a constant...making the integration exceedingly simple"
Okay, that may be where I'm going wrong. When I have taken u and v in the past, one of them is almost always a constant, yielding a derivative of zero. While the integration didn't seem exceedingly simple, the answers have usually been wrong.
Back to the drawing board.
Here try looking at this
Derivative Tutorial
it should explain
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