January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1015 pages
318h 54m
English
Decompose rational expressions into partial fractions.
There are situations in calculus in which it is useful to write a rational expression as a sum of two or more simpler rational expressions. In the equation
for example, each fraction on the right side is called a partial fraction. The expression on the right side is the partial fraction decomposition of the rational expression on the left side. In this section, we learn how such decompositions are created.
The procedure for finding the partial fraction decomposition of a rational expression involves factoring its denominator into linear factors and quadratic factors.
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