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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge
/
2010
/
Paper 1
/
16
/
b
/
Solution
by
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2026-10-18
The increasing substitution
x
=
sin
2
θ
maps
0
≤
θ
≤
π
/2
onto
0
≤
x
≤
1
, with
d
x
=
2
sin
θ
cos
θ
d
θ
. Since
sine
and
cosine
are nonnegative there,
powers
combine without
a
sign
ambiguity
:
B
(
p
,
q
)
=
2
∫
0
π
/2
sin
2
p
−
1
θ
cos
2
q
−
1
θ
d
θ
.
(1)
This is the
trigonometric form of the beta function
. The
powers
at the endpoints are integrable because
p
,
q
>
0
.
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