Evaluating $\int_0^\infty \frac{dx}{\sqrt{x}[x^2+(1+2\sqrt{2})x+1][1-x+x^2-x^3+...+x^{50}]}$ My brother's friend gave me the following wicked integral with a beautiful result

\begin{equation}
{\Large\int_0^\infty} \frac{dx}{\sqrt{x} \bigg[x^2+\left(1+2\sqrt{2}\right)x+1\bigg] \bigg[1-x+x^2-x^3+\cdots+x^{50}\bigg]}={\large\left(\sqrt{2}-1\right)\pi}
\end{equation}

He claimed the above integral can be generalised to the following form
\begin{equation}
{\Large\int_0^\infty} \frac{dx}{\sqrt{x} \bigg[x^2+ax+1\bigg] \bigg[1-x+x^2-x^3+\cdots+(-x)^{n}\bigg]}=\ldots
\end{equation}
This is a challenging problem. How to prove it and what is the closed-form of the general integral?

Indeed let
$$
I(n,a)=\int_0^\infty\frac{dx}{\sqrt{x}(1+ax+x^2)(\sum_{k=0}^n(-x)^k)}
$$
The change of variables $x\leftarrow 1/x$ yields
$$
I(n,a)=\int_0^\infty\frac{(-1)^nx^{n+1}dx}{ \sqrt{x}(1+ax+x^2)(\sum_{k=0}^n(-x)^k)}
$$
Thus
$$
2I(n,a)=\int_0^\infty\frac{1+x}{\sqrt{x}(1+ax+x^2)}dx=
2\int_0^\infty\frac{1+t^2}{ 1+at^2+t^4}dt
$$
Or equivalently, setting $u=t-1/t$,
$$
I(n,a)=
\int_{-\infty}^\infty\frac{du}{ 2+a+u^2} =\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{2+a}}.
$$
