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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 4 iii Solution by
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For , use . The interval traverses once counterclockwise, , and . ThusPut . The two simple poles areTheir moduli are and , so exactly is enclosed, for either sign of . Its residue isThe residue theorem yieldsThis also follows from the reciprocal affine sine integral after an angular shift. At , the original integral is directly , agreeing with the boxed formula. The displayed two-pole formulas require : at zero the contour integrand reduces to with a single pole. Thus the source's claim of two simple poles has this removable special-case exception.
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