Compute this integral (Is there a trick hidden to make it eassier?)

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I need some tips to compute this integral:

$$ \int\,\dfrac{\sqrt{x^2-1}}{x^5\sqrt{9x^2-1}}\,dx $$

What I did was express the denominator in the following form:

$$ \int\,\dfrac{\sqrt{x^2-1}}{x^5\sqrt{9x^2-1}}\,dx = \int\,\dfrac{\sqrt{x^2-1}}{x^5\sqrt{8x^2+x^2-1}}\,dx $$

Then, I made the change $x = \sec{\theta}$, then

$$ \int\,\dfrac{\sqrt{x^2-1}}{x^5\sqrt{8x^2+x^2-1}}\,dx = \int\,\dfrac{\sqrt{\sec^2{\theta}-1}}{\sec^5{\theta}\sqrt{8\sec^2{\theta}+\sec^2{\theta}-1}}\sec{\theta}\tan{\theta}\,d{\theta} $$

Trying to symplify this expression, I came to this:

$$ \dfrac{1}{4}\int\,\dfrac{\sin^2(2\theta)\cos{\theta}}{\sqrt{8\sin^2{\theta}+1}}\,d{\theta} $$

I feel this integral can be computed using some kind of "trick", but I can't see it. Thanks for your help and have a nice day!

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$$I=\int\,\dfrac{\sqrt{x^2-1}}{x^5\sqrt{9x^2-1}}\,dx$$ Let $u=\displaystyle\frac{\sqrt{x^2-1}}{\sqrt{9x^2-1}}$, which means that $\displaystyle\frac{du}{dx}=\frac{8x}{(x^2-1)^\frac{1}{2}(9x^2-1)^\frac{3}{2}}$ $$\Rightarrow I=\int\,\dfrac{u}{x^5}\,\frac{dx}{du}du$$ $$=\frac{1}{8}\int\,\dfrac{1}{x^6}\frac{\sqrt{x^2-1}}{\sqrt{9x^2-1}}\,\left((x^2-1)^\frac{1}{2}(9x^2-1)^\frac{3}{2}\right)du$$ $$=\frac{1}{8}\int\,\dfrac{(x^2-1)(9x^2-1)^2}{x^6}\,du$$ By some algebra you will find that $x=\displaystyle\frac{\sqrt{u^2-1}}{\sqrt{9u^2-1}}$, so $$I=\frac{1}{8}\int\,\dfrac{\left(\frac{u^2-1}{9u^2-1}-1\right)\left(9\left(\frac{u^2-1}{9u^2-1}\right)-1\right)^2}{\left(\frac{u^2-1}{9u^2-1}\right)^3}\,du$$ which simplifies to $$I=-64\int\,\dfrac{u^2}{(u^2-1)^3}\,du$$ Which can be found by the substitution $v=u^2-1$. This gives that $$I=2\ln\left(\frac{1+u}{1-u}\right)-\frac{8(u^3+u)}{(u^2-1)^2}$$ You should get an answer by back-substitution. Perhaps a trigonometric substitution like you suggested would have made it simpler but this seemed to work fine.

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You could try a partial fractional decomposition of the discriminant, and see if that approach is of any use.

$$\frac{x^2-1}{9x^2-1} = \frac{1}{9}\cdot\left(1+\frac{4}{3x+1}-\frac{4}{3x-1}\right) \ .$$