EDIT/UPDATE: I DO NOT NEED A SOLUTION. SEE SOS440 COMMENT FOR A FULL DETAILED SOLUTION.
Hi I am trying to integrate $$ \int_0^{\phi_0} \arctan \sqrt{\frac{\cos \phi+1}{\alpha \cos \phi +\beta}}d\phi, $$ where $\alpha > |\beta|$ and min$_{0\leq \phi \leq \phi_0}(\alpha\cos \phi +\beta)\geq 0$.
I think this class of integrals is from the early 2000's mathematics journals, however I may be mistaken. Any literature on this would be very helpful as well.
Some ideas I had were trying to use trig identities to first re-write the square root expression by using $$ \frac{1}{2}(1+\cos \phi)=\cos^2\frac{\phi}{2},\quad \alpha\cos\phi+\beta=\alpha+\beta-2\alpha \sin^2\frac{\phi}{2}, $$ however I am not sure where to go from here. Thank you for reading.
do you use LaTex? How do you write your integral signs? They are not as slanted to the right as the one's on this site, instead they are straight up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Integral_Uprightness.svg.
– Jeff Faraci Apr 06 '14 at 22:23