change order of integration and reparameterize to simplify a double integral

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The limits of integration are {sqrt(y)<=x<=1, 0<=y<=1}

and the integrand is cos(x^3)

simply altering the order of integration does not simplify the problem. I have graphed the area of integration but i'm at a loss on how to reparameterize my limits of integration to simplify this problem.

I can compute once I have the new parameters.

anyone got any ideas?
 
The limits of integration are {sqrt(y)<=x<=1, 0<=y<=1}

and the integrand is cos(x^3)

simply altering the order of integration does not simplify the problem. I have graphed the area of integration but i'm at a loss on how to reparameterize my limits of integration to simplify this problem.

I can compute once I have the new parameters.

anyone got any ideas?
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You are sure that your integrand is cos(x^3) and NOT cos(x)^3 [ i.e. cos^3(x)]

The limits on y would be x^2 to 1.
 
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The limits of integration are {sqrt(y)<=x<=1, 0<=y<=1}

and the integrand is cos(x^3)

simply altering the order of integration does not simplify the problem. I have graphed the area of integration but i'm at a loss on how to reparameterize my limits of integration to simplify this problem.

I can compute once I have the new parameters.

anyone got any ideas?
This is 01y1cos(x3)dxdy\displaystyle \int_0^1 \int_{\sqrt{y}}^1 cos(x^3)dx dy
The limits of integration say "y varies from 0 to 1 and, for each y, x varies from y\displaystyle \sqrt{y} to 1".

It is useful to graph this. x=y\displaystyle x= \sqrt{y}, in the first quadrant, is y=x2\displaystyle y= x^2 (Remember that y\displaystyle \sqrt{y} indicates the positive number whose square is y). x can go from 0 to 1 and y, for each x, goes from 0 to x2\displaystyle x^2. That is, the integral is
010x2cos(x3)dydx\displaystyle \int_0^1\int_0^{x^2} cos(x^3)dy dx

There is no "y" in the integrand so doing the first integral gives 01x2cos(x3)dx\displaystyle \int_0^1 x^2 cos(x^3)dx which is easy to integrate.
(The "parameterization" referred to is, I think, just the obvious substitution.)
 
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