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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ib Paper 2 13D ii Solution by
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On the top side put , with running from to . Since and , the reversed orientation cancels the minus sign. The two horizontal integrals therefore sum toIf the vertical contributions vanish, the previous residue theorem evaluation yields the Fresnel integralThis also is an ordinary oscillatory improper integral, not merely a symmetric principal value: integration by parts, using , bounds either tail beginning at by a constant times .
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