Math 129 Section 005H Lecture 2: Integration by parts11 1 This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License

Integration by parts is the product rule “in reverse”

(Wednesday, August 25, 2021)

Recall the product rule for differentiation:

ddx(u(x)v(x))=u(x)v(x)+u(x)v(x).

This implies

(u(x)v(x)+u(x)v(x))𝑑x=u(x)v(x)+C.

More useful form:

u(x)v(x)𝑑x=u(x)v(x)-u(x)v(x)𝑑x.

or

uv=uv-uv.