Sine and Cosine Integrals

Functions > Symbolic Functions > Sine and Cosine Integrals

• Si(x)—The Sine integral function is defined as:

The series expansion representation is:

The displayed result represents, three out of the default six, terms of the series that do not have coefficients of 0.

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• Ci(x)—The Cosine integral function is defined as:

Another form of the definition is:

The series expansion representation is:

The last two terms represent, two out of the default six, terms of the series that do not have coefficients of 0.

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• Shi(x)—The Hyperbolic sine integral function is defined as:

The displayed result represents, three out of the default six, terms of the series that do not have coefficients of 0.

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The terms of the series expansion of the Si and Shi functions are identical except for the sign of the terms where n is even.

• Chi(x)—The Hyperbolic cosine integral function is defined as:

Another form of the definition is:

The last two terms represent, two out of the default six, terms of the series that do not have coefficients of 0.

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The terms of the series expansion of the Ci and Chi functions are identical except for the sign of the terms where n is odd.

Arguments

• x is a real or complex scalar, or a vector of real or complex scalars.

Additional Information

These functions are useful with using the float keyword that numerically evaluates functions instead of returning symbolic math.