U-substitution is how you take the antiderivative (undo the derivative) of an equation that came from a Chain Rule derivative. U-substitution is an antiderivative process that takes an integral that you don’t know how to solve, and rewrites the integral so that it becomes an integral you do know how to solve (i.e., turns it into either a power rule or a special case antiderivative).
My u-substitution method is different than many teachers that I have seen. Believe me my method works, my method is easier, my method works better than the more standardized way of teaching u-substitution, and my method is completely accepted by those who grade the AP Calculus Exam because it is mathematically the same. My method does not require you to find what you need to multiply by or “see” what you need to multiply by in order to substitute in your u . My method requires no “seeing” anything, and just works.