Integrating Using Integration by Parts BC only
Integrating both sides of the product rule and rearranging gives $\int u\,dv = uv - \int v\,du$, where the minus sign is what moving a term across produced and is not optional. The formula evaluates nothing; it trades one integral for another, so the choice of $u$ and $dv$ is the whole method. Pick $u$ so that differentiating it simplifies, and $dv$ so that you can actually integrate it: for $\int x e^{x}dx$, $u = x$ gives $xe^{x} - e^{x} + C$, while $u = e^{x}$ produces a new integral carrying $x^{2}$, which is a verdict on the choice rather than on the method. LIATE orders the usual candidates for $u$, and $\int \ln x\,dx$ works by taking $dv = dx$.
When $u$ is a higher power, parts is applied repeatedly, and the two failures are stopping with an integral sign still in the answer and losing the bracket so the leading coefficient reaches only the first term. If the original integral reappears, as it does for $\int e^{x}\sin x\,dx$, solve for it algebraically. With limits attached, the boundary term is evaluated at both ends and becomes a number while the remaining integral keeps the same limits, so $\int_{0}^{1} xe^{x}dx = (e - 0) - (e - 1) = 1$.
The work
3 ways in · any order
Lesson
Integrating Using Integration by Parts
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Derives the parts formula by integrating the product rule, sets the two conditions a good choice of u and dv must meet and shows the bad choice failing on the same integral, carries the minus sign and the bracket through a repeated application, solves the circular case algebraically, and evaluates the boundary term of a definite integral in place.
Diagnostic
10-item topic check
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Ten items on the choice of u and dv and on the bookkeeping around it: choices that produce a harder integral than the original, the sign in the formula, repeated applications stopped too early or expanded without a bracket, and boundary terms in definite integrals.
Targeted Practice
Drill a single misconception
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Pick one of the failure modes you missed and drill it on its own. The round is adaptive: two correct in a row clears the misconception and moves you to the next.