How do you find the antiderivative of esinxcosx?

1 Answer

Use a u-substitution to find esinxcosxdx=esinx+C.

Explanation:

Notice that the derivative of sinx is cosx, and since these appear in the same integral, this problem is solved with a u-substitution.

Let u=sinxdudx=cosxdu=cosxdx

esinxcosxdx becomes:
eudu

This integral evaluates to eu+C (because the derivative of eu is eu). But u=sinx, so:
esinxcosxdx=eudu=eu+C=esinx+C