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Example Question #71 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
Find at with the equation
So with implicit differentiation, you are going to be taking the derivative of every variable, in the entire equation. Every time you take the derivative of a variable, you have it's rate of change multiplied on the right. In this case, dx or dy.
The result of the derivative is:
The first step is to create the term that you are looking to solve for. This is done by dividing the entire equation by to get it on the bottom of the fraction. After distributing this division to each term, the dx in the first term will cancel with itself, and you will be left with one term that is multiplied by . At that point, you want to get the term with onto its own side. This can be accomplished by subtracting the to the right side of the equation.
The result so far:
Then to finish getting on its own, you divide to the right side, ending up with:
So now looking at the question, we know that , so in order to figure out we need to plug into the equation.
This gives us .
So this gives us two possible answers:
Example Question #72 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
Find the derivative of
So the derivative of a natural log is always equal to or one over whatever is inside the natural log. In this case is inside the natural log, so the derivative of should be:
But since the inside of the natural log is a function as well, this is the chain rule and the derivative of the natural log will be multiplied by the derivative of the inside, in this case , which is .
So the final derivative is
Example Question #73 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
Compute the derivative of the following expression:
This problem involves using product rule, and chain rule.
By product rule,
Then, using power rule, and ten chain.
Another application of chain rule to get at the angle,
Taking the derivative of the angle and then simplifying, we get
Example Question #74 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
Find the first derivative of the function:
The derivative of the function is equal to
and was found using the following rules:
, , , ,
Note that the chain rule is used for the exponential function (the secant is the inner function) and for the cosine function (the linear term is the inner function).
Example Question #81 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
Find the derivative of the function:
The derivative of the function is equal to
and was found using the following rules:
, , ,
Note that the chain rule was used on the natural logarithm derivative and the derivative of the cosine function.
Example Question #82 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
Compute the second derivative of the following function:
The first step in finding our second derivative is finding the first.
For our function we note that it is a composite function, and therefore requires the use of the chain rule. The chain rule states if then .
In our case this becomes:
To find the second derivative we must take the derivative of this function we've now computed. To do this we will require both the chain rule as stated, and the product rule since our function is of the form , our derivative will be of the form .
Therefore, our second derivative is:
or equivalently,
Example Question #83 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
Given the relation , find .
None of the other answers
We start by taking the derivative of both sides of the equation, and proceeding as follows,
.
Example Question #84 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
and
Given that
find the derivative of .
First step is to figure out what is. This is done by inputting wherever there is an in , which gives you
.
Then you start on the outermost function, the sine function, and work your way inwards.
Again, chain rule for is:
,
which gives us for this problem
Example Question #175 : Computation Of The Derivative
Find for the equation.
None of these answers
So implicit differentiation means that you take the derivative of every variable in the same way, with its respective rate of change, dx or dy in this case, coming out multiplied on the end.
You take the derivative of the whole equation and the result is:
The first step to solve for dy/dx is to create a dy/dx term, which means that you need to divide the entire equation by dx, to get it on the bottom. Each term becomes divided by dx, so the dx cancels with itself and you are left with two terms that have . The result is:
At this point, you want to get on its own side, so this involves subtracting the two terms that aren't multiplied by onto the right side of the equation.
After that, you factor out the and end up with:
Then, the last step is to divide over the two term block to the other side to get on its own.
Example Question #85 : Chain Rule And Implicit Differentiation
,
and
Find the derivative of
None of these answers
The chain rule of the derivative always deals with the composition of two or more functions.
In this case we can identify two,
and
.
So is the composition of these two such that:
With chain rule, you always start on the outermost function and work your way inward, which in this case is:
Always the derivative of the outermost evaluated at the inner, multiplied by the derivative of the inner.