I stumbled across this definite integral and was unable to find a closed form.
This integral is defined as follows: $$ I \equiv \int_{0}^{\pi/2} \arccos\left(\frac{\cos \left(x\right)} {1 + 2\cos\left(x\right)}\right){\rm d}x $$ To solve this problem, I tried to incorporate the double angle identity $\cos\left(2\theta\right) = 2\cos^{2}\left(\theta\right) - 1$ as follows:
$$ \mbox{Isolate}\ \theta:\quad 2\theta = \arccos\left(2\cos^{2}\left(\theta\right) - 1\right) $$ $$ \mbox{Let}\quad \alpha = 2\cos^{2}\left(\theta\right) - 1 $$ After substituting and some manipulation $$ \theta = \arccos\left(\sqrt{\frac{1 + \alpha}{2}}\right) $$ $$ \mbox{Hence,}\quad \arccos(\alpha) = 2\arccos\left(\sqrt{\frac{1+\alpha}{2}}\right) $$ This finding enables us to rewrite $I$ as the following $$ I = \int_{0}^{\pi/2}2\arccos\left(\sqrt{\frac{1 + 3\cos\left(x\right)}{2 + 4\cos\left(x\right)}}\right){\rm d}x $$ However, I am not sure how to continue from here, so any help would be greatly appreciated.