Integrate: t^3e^t dt =======?

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I'm going to assume that the t was only raised to the third and that it was multiplied by e^t because if t was raised to (3e^t), I'd probably kill myself (okay, I won't but it would be something that I cannot solve due to it either being impossible or me not doing calculus for while).

Anyway, with that assumption in mind, it's easy to solve this. Just use integration by parts three times. I'm not going to show my work because I don't have the proper math symbols and that would drive me nuts. Unless I did my math wrong, it should end up being:

t^3*e^t - 3*t^2*e^t + 6*t*e^t - 6*e^t

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John McCann
John McCann commented
Some colleges combine linear algebra and differential equations and I do not know if one can take either before finishing early transcendentals. Still, what would I know? I am a biologist and took no more than the two semesters of calculus, what I needed. Many biologists I know took only two semesters of short calculus. Calculus teachers, even those that teach short calculus, do not consider that true calculus.

Still, math schooling is fluid and you may be able to take both linear algebra and differential equations before calculus three.
Lia Tan
Lia Tan commented
The requirements for taking first semester of differential equations and linear algebra is just calculus 2, so I think I can.

The problem is that I'm not a full time college student (I'm still 16) so I have to somehow fit college classes in my high school schedule, meaning I only can take one course. Plus it costs a lot for each credit hour. But I guess I'll figure it out eventually.

So why are you a biologist? What interested you in that field in the first place? And are you a specific kind of biologist or just a general one?
John McCann
John McCann commented
I would take the linear algebra/differential equation combo then as this is the math needed. Many of the experiments/exercises in physical science devolve into differential equation. So, differential equations are most useful. Even I can struggle through some first order differential equations!

Why am I a biologist?

There is one science and that is biology, and there is one biology and that is evolutionary biology!

Nothing is more important than studying the unity and diversity of life.

I was a field biologist. Wolf behavior. Especially Canis lupus artos. I am an ethologist and we are interested, mainly, in the individual behavior of the organism and our field is directly from evolutionary biology, so we are steeped in evolutionary theory.

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