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Past exam of the mathematical methods II course of the University of Oxford 2015 resit 4 Solution by
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The proposed linear change of variables makes the two pairs of boundary lines constant-coordinate lines: and . Thus the image of the parallelogram is the rectangle , .
The forward Jacobian matrix and its determinant areInverting gives , , so the area element is . The absolute inverse Jacobian determinant, rather than the forward determinant, belongs in the transformed area integral. Consequentlywhich yields . The transformed denominator is bounded below by one throughout the region, so no singular or improper integral is involved.
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