How can I calculate the integral?

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How can I calculate the following integral??

$$\int \frac{1}{t}u'(t) dt$$

I thought that I could it as followed:

$$\int \frac{1}{t}u'(t) dt=\frac{1}{t}u(t)+\int \frac{1}{t^2}u(t) dt$$

but I don't know how to continue...

Or is there an other way to calculate it??

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This integral has no closed form since we don't know what this function $u'(t)$ can be. For example, take $u(t)=-\cos t$, then $u'(t)=\sin t$, and thus we will get: $$\int\dfrac{\sin t}{t}\mathrm dt\,,$$ which is known to not have an antiderivative expressible in terms of elementary functions. So if a closed form for your integral existed then that would mean that a closed form for this since integral exists, which isn't possible.