Can someone help me with these formulas,please?

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I was solving some integral problems and I made some assumptions.I really need to know if they are true.
I have searched the net,but I can't find an answer to my question.

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My professor says if we go after learning ourselves,we learn better.And I really can't contact him right now.
 
You can't do an integral involving "ln" unless you know what "ln" means! And surely when you learned about ln(x) you learned that \(\displaystyle ln(x^a)= a ln(x)\), one of the important properties of the logarithm. So \(\displaystyle \int ln(\sqrt[n]{x} dx= \int ln(x^{1/n})dx= \int \frac{1}{n} ln(x)dx= \frac{1}{n}\int ln(x)dx\) since 1/n is a constant with respect to x.

For the second one, exactly how have you defined "ln(x)"? Probably as the inverse function to \(\displaystyle f(x)= e^x\). That is, if \(\displaystyle y= ln(x)\) then \(\displaystyle x= e^y\). Then \(\displaystyle \frac{dx}{dy}= \frac{de^y}{dx}= e^y\). So \(\displaystyle \frac{d ln(x)}{dx}= \frac{dy}{dx}= \frac{1}{\frac{dx}{dy}}= \frac{1}{e^y}\) and, since \(\displaystyle e^y= x\), \(\displaystyle \frac{d ln(x)}{dx}= \frac{1}{x}\). Of course, since ln(x) is only defined for x> 0, we have to require that x> 0 here.

More generally, if u(x) is a function of x that may be either positive or negative, we have to take the absolute value of u so that ln(|u|) will have meaning. By the "chain rule", \(\displaystyle \frac{d ln(|u|)}{dx}= \frac{ln(|u|)}{du}\frac{d|u|}{dx}= \frac{1}{|u|}\frac{d|u|}{dx}\) which may be \(\displaystyle \frac{du}{dx}\) if u is positive or \(\displaystyle -\frac{du}{dx}\) if u is negative. But |u| is also u if u is positive or -u if u is negative so the signs cancel and we can simply write \(\displaystyle \frac{d ln(|u|)}{dx}= \frac{1}{u}\frac{du}{dx}\).

It is also perfectly valid to define \(\displaystyle ln(x)= \int_1^x \frac{1}{t} dt\) and then define \(\displaystyle exp(x)= e^x\) as the inverse function. In that case \(\displaystyle \frac{d ln(x)}{dx}= \frac{1}{x}\) immediately from the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus".
 
I was solving some integral problems and I made some assumptions.I really need to know if they are true.
I have searched the net,but I can't find an answer to my question.

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My professor says if we go after learning ourselves,we learn better.And I really can't contact him right now.
Your professor is so right about that. Here are two option pieces you may read. #I & #II
I stand in his tradition, so I would rarely advise one to memorize, but here is an exception:
\(\displaystyle \int {\ln (x)dx} = x\ln (x) - x\). That is just so darn useful.
In this case \(\displaystyle \int {\ln \left( {\sqrt[n]{x}} \right)dx} = \frac{1}{n}\int {\ln (x)dx} = \frac{1}{n}\left[ {x\ln (x) - x} \right]\)
 
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