Calculus Examples

$x \cdot e^{- x^{2}}$

Step 1

Write $x \cdot e^{- x^{2}}$ as a function.

$f (x) = x \cdot e^{- x^{2}}$

Step 2

The function $F (x)$ can be found by finding the indefinite integral of the derivative $f (x)$ .

$F (x) = \int f (x) d x$

Step 3

Set up the integral to solve.

$F (x) = \int x \cdot e^{- x^{2}} d x$

Step 4

Let $u_{2} = e^{- x^{2}}$ . Then $d u_{2} = - 2 x e^{- x^{2}} d x$ , so $- \frac{1}{2} d u_{2} = x e^{- x^{2}} d x$ . Rewrite using $u_{2}$ and $d$ $u_{2}$ .

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Step 4.1

Let $u_{2} = e^{- x^{2}}$ . Find $\frac{d u_{2}}{d x}$ .

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Step 4.1.1

Differentiate $e^{- x^{2}}$ .

$\frac{d}{d x} [e^{- x^{2}}]$

Step 4.1.2

Differentiate using the chain rule, which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [f (g (x))]$ is $f' (g (x)) g' (x)$ where $f (x) = e^{x}$ and $g (x) = - x^{2}$ .

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Step 4.1.2.1

To apply the Chain Rule, set $u_{1}$ as $- x^{2}$ .

$\frac{d}{d u_{1}} [e^{u_{1}}] \frac{d}{d x} [- x^{2}]$

Step 4.1.2.2

Differentiate using the Exponential Rule which states that $\frac{d}{d u_{1}} [a^{u_{1}}]$ is $a^{u_{1}} \ln (a)$ where $a$ = $e$ .

$e^{u_{1}} \frac{d}{d x} [- x^{2}]$

Step 4.1.2.3

Replace all occurrences of $u_{1}$ with $- x^{2}$ .

$e^{- x^{2}} \frac{d}{d x} [- x^{2}]$

Step 4.1.3

Differentiate.

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Step 4.1.3.1

Since $- 1$ is constant with respect to $x$ , the derivative of $- x^{2}$ with respect to $x$ is $- \frac{d}{d x} [x^{2}]$ .

$e^{- x^{2}} (- \frac{d}{d x} [x^{2}])$

Step 4.1.3.2

Differentiate using the Power Rule which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [x^{n}]$ is $n x^{n - 1}$ where $n = 2$ .

$e^{- x^{2}} (- (2 x))$

Step 4.1.3.3

Multiply $2$ by $- 1$ .

$e^{- x^{2}} (- 2 x)$

Step 4.1.4

Simplify.

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Step 4.1.4.1

Reorder the factors of $e^{- x^{2}} (- 2 x)$ .

$- 2 e^{- x^{2}} x$

Step 4.1.4.2

Reorder factors in $- 2 e^{- x^{2}} x$ .

$- 2 x e^{- x^{2}}$

Step 4.2

Rewrite the problem using $u_{2}$ and $d u_{2}$ .

$\int \frac{1}{- 2} d u_{2}$

Step 5

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$\int - \frac{1}{2} d u_{2}$

Step 6

Apply the constant rule.

$- \frac{1}{2} u_{2} + C$

Step 7

Replace all occurrences of $u_{2}$ with $e^{- x^{2}}$ .

$- \frac{1}{2} e^{- x^{2}} + C$

Step 8

The answer is the antiderivative of the function $f (x) = x \cdot e^{- x^{2}}$ .

$F (x) =$ $- \frac{1}{2} e^{- x^{2}} + C$