Integral of $\int{\sqrt{x^2+a}}dx$

Question

Give integral I = $\int{\sqrt{x^2+a}}dx$

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Using the U substitution, solution of integral is as follows.

u = $\sqrt{x^2+a}$
du= $\frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}$
dv = dx
v = x

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I am trying to understand how the give steps below have been simplified

I = $x\times\sqrt{x^2+a}$ -$\int{\frac{x^2}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}}dx$ =

= $x\times\sqrt{x^2+a}$ -$\int{\frac{(x^2+a)-a}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}}dx$=

= $x\times\sqrt{x^2+a}$ - $\int{\sqrt{x^2+a}}dx$ + $a\times\int{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}}dx$=

= $x\times\sqrt{x^2+a}-I $ + $a\times\ln{|x+\sqrt{x^2+a}|}$

I was trying to make sense of following steps but i couldn't, how can we simplify the following part of integral from $\int{\frac{(x^2+a)-a}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}}dx$ to $\int{\sqrt{x^2+a}}dx$ + $a\times\int{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}}dx$

Answer 1

Don't forget the negative sign in front of that integral. The simplification occurs like this:

$$-\int \frac{(x^2+a)-a}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}\;dx = -\int \left(\frac{x^2+a}{\sqrt{x^2+a}} - \frac{a}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}\right)\;dx = -\int \left(\sqrt{x^2+a} - \frac{a}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}\right)\;dx = -\int \sqrt{x^2 + a}\;dx + a\int \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}\;dx$$