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Thanks Heureka and Chris,
I really like Alan's solution here.
It is so elegant.
And, once placed in front of me, it is so 'obvious' LOL
What is the chances of it being obvious (to me) next time without Alan answering first.
Probably about 0.01
I am trying to think about how something like this can be used in this question.
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/integral_4
I have included both these questions into the "Great Answers to Learn from" sticky thread
I am considering the very elegant substitution that Alan used here
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/integrate-cos-1x-2-1-x-2-1-2
I am going to look for something like that here.
Heureka used a substitution but it looked hard to me.
$$\\\int x\;\sqrt {0.25 - x^2} dx\\\\
Let \\
u=0.25-x^2\\\\
du=-2x\;dx\\\\
dx=\frac{du}{-2x}\\\\
so\\
\int x\;\sqrt {0.25 - x^2} dx\\\\
=\int \not{x}\;\sqrt {u}\; \frac{du}{-2\not{x}}\\\\
=\int \;\frac{u^{1/2}}{-2}\; du\\\\
=\frac{2u^{3/2}}{3*-2}+c\\\\
=\frac{-u^{3/2}}{3}+c\\\\
=\frac{-(0.25-x^2)^{3/2}}{3}+c\\\\$$
YES I Like that - thanks Alan