The area of the region between the curves $y=\sqrt{\frac{1+\sin x}{\cos x}}$ and $y=\sqrt{\frac{1-\sin…

The area of the region between the curves $y=\sqrt{\frac{1+\sin x}{\cos x}}$ and $y=\sqrt{\frac{1-\sin x}{\cos x}}$ bounded by the lines $x=0$ and $x=\frac{\pi}{4}$ is
  1. $\int_0^{\sqrt{2}-1} \frac{t}{\left(1+t^2\right) \sqrt{1-t^2}} d t$
  2. $\int_0^{\sqrt{2}-1} \frac{4 t}{\left(1+t^2\right) \sqrt{1-t^2}} d t$
  3. $\int_0^{\sqrt{2}+1} \frac{4 t}{\left(1+t^2\right) \sqrt{1-t^2}} d t$
  4. $\int_0^{\sqrt{2}+1} \frac{t}{\left(1+t^2\right) \sqrt{1-t^2}} d t$

Solution

$ \begin{aligned} & \text { Required area }=\int_0^{\pi / 4}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1+\sin x}{\cos x}}-\sqrt{\frac{1-\sin x}{\cos x}}\right) d x \quad\left[\because \frac{1+\sin x}{\cos x}>\frac{1-\sin x}{\cos x}>0\right] \\ & \left.=\int_0^{\pi / 4} \sqrt{\frac{1+\frac{2 \tan \frac{x}{2}}{1+\tan ^2 \frac{x}{2}}}{\frac{1-\tan ^2 \frac{x}{2}}{1+\tan ^2 \frac{x}{2}}}} \sqrt{\frac{1-\frac{2 \tan \frac{x}{2}}{1+\tan ^2 \frac{x}{2}}}{\frac{1-\tan ^2 \frac{x}{2}}{1+\tan ^2 \frac{x}{2}}}}\right) d x \\ & \left.=\int_0^{\pi / 4} \sqrt{\frac{1+\tan \frac{x}{2}}{1-\tan \frac{x}{2}}}-\sqrt{\frac{1-\tan \frac{x}{2}}{1+\tan \frac{x}{2}}}\right) d x \\ & \end{aligned} $ $ =\int_0^{\pi / 4} \frac{1+\tan \frac{x}{2}-1+\tan \frac{x}{2}}{\sqrt{1-\tan ^2 \frac{x}{2}}} d x=\int_0^{\pi / 4} \frac{2 \tan \frac{x}{2}}{\sqrt{1-\tan ^2 \frac{x}{2}}} d x $ Put $\tan \frac{x}{2}=t$ $ \begin{aligned} \Rightarrow \quad \frac{1}{2} \sec ^2 \frac{x}{2} d x & =d t \\ \therefore \text { Required area } & =\int_0^{\tan \frac{\pi}{8}} \frac{4 t d t}{\left(1+t^2\right) \sqrt{1-t^2}} \\ & =\int_0^{\sqrt{2}-1} \frac{4 t}{\left(1+t^2\right) \sqrt{1-t^2}} d t \quad\left[\text { astan } \frac{\pi}{8}=\sqrt{2}-1\right] \end{aligned} $

Asked in: JEE Advanced 2008 (Paper 2)

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