Your are talking about reduction to elliptic integrals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_integral
I do not think that sympy can currently do this (it would be a great project)! On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Andrew Corrigan <[email protected] > wrote: > Thank you both for your replies. I'm not sure I follow the discussion to > be honest as to how it applies to my original problem. In particular: > >> Distilling this down you want to compute the integral of the square >>> root of a quadratic >> >> I'm not sure that is accurate. If you are just referring to that it is > (foo(xi))**2 + (bar(xi))**2, then yes the expression is quadratic in foo > and bar. But in general, foo(xi) and bar(xi) are themselves higher degree > polynomials of xi (and in higher dimensions other coordinates too). This > is a very simple and minimal reproducing example: in this case foo and bar > are linear polynomials so the whole expression is quadratic. I have > expressions I need to integrate, where foo(xi) and bar(xi) are higher-order > polynomials terms of xi. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/bfac9248-8d14-49f4-98ce-b934d279b310%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/bfac9248-8d14-49f4-98ce-b934d279b310%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CALOxT-mJeD3QEmajoheg0r1irytHMX-kD0Hc-oYP3izRoNGj-A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
