Question
Evaluate : $\int_0^{\pi / 4} \frac{\sec ^2 x}{2 \tan ^2 x+5 \tan x+1} \cdot d x$

Answer

Let $\mathrm{I}=\int_0^{\pi / 4} \frac{\sec ^2 x}{2 \tan ^2 x+5 \tan x+1} \cdot d x$
put $\tan x=t \quad \therefore \sec ^2 x \cdot d x=1 \cdot d t$
As $x$ varies from 0 to $\frac{\pi}{4}$
$t$ varies from 0 to 1
$
\begin{aligned}
& =\int_0^1 \frac{1}{2 t^2+4 t+1} \cdot d t \\
& =\frac{1}{2} \cdot \int_0^1 \frac{1}{t^2+2 t+\frac{1}{2}} \cdot d t \\
& =\frac{1}{2} \cdot \int_0^1 \frac{1}{t^2+2 t+1-1+\frac{1}{2}} \cdot d t \\
& =\frac{1}{2} \cdot \int_0^1 \frac{1}{(t+1)^2-\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)^2} \cdot d t
\end{aligned}
$
$\begin{aligned} & =\frac{1}{2} \frac{1}{2\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)}\left[\log \left[\frac{(t+1)-\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}}{(t+1)+\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}}\right]\right]_0^1 \\ & =\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4} \log \left[\left(\frac{\sqrt{2} t+\sqrt{2}-1}{\sqrt{2} t+\sqrt{2}+1}\right)\right]_0^1 \\ & =\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}\left[\log \left(\frac{\sqrt{2}(1)+\sqrt{2}-1}{\sqrt{2}(1)+\sqrt{2}+1}\right)-\log \left(\frac{\sqrt{2}(0)+\sqrt{2}-1}{\sqrt{2}(0)+\sqrt{2}+1}\right)\right] \\ & =\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}\left[\log \left(\frac{2 \sqrt{2}-1}{2 \sqrt{2}+1}\right)-\log \left(\frac{\sqrt{2}-1}{\sqrt{2}+1}\right)\right] \\ & =\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4} \log \left[\left(\frac{2 \sqrt{2}-1}{2 \sqrt{2}+1}\right) \div\left(\frac{\sqrt{2}-1}{\sqrt{2}+1}\right)\right] \\ & =\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4} \log \left[\frac{3+\sqrt{2}}{3-\sqrt{2}}\right]\end{aligned}$

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