Question: Calculus Study guide disappointment

I got Maple 17 a few weeks ago and it has been helpful in my learning of calculus, but not as much as I had hoped.

 

I also bought the Calculus study guide which is a big disappointment. For example, I tried using the integration methods tutor for the integral  cos(5x).

The correct answer is  1/5 sin(5x) + C and is found with U-substitution. 

With the tutor, I entered cos5x into the function box.  cos(5x) does not work. The only step that it does allow is the constant rule, and gives the final answer of  cos5x x.

Maple itself, gives the correct answer, without the arbitrary constant, which is not a big deal. 

 

The functions you are allowed to enter in the intergral tutor are very limited, as it is plain text. You are not allowed to use any of the Maple features, unless there is a way to do so that I am unaware of. So anything that is not pretty basic, the tutor is useless.

Is there a way to get Maple to show it's process for getting the answer to an intergral (or anything else really)?

 

Thanks!

 

 

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