Calculus 1 : How to find differential functions

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Example Questions

Example Question #395 : Functions

Find the derivative of 

Possible Answers:

 

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve this problem, we need the power rule, the derivative formulas for sine and cosine, and the chain rule.

The chain rule states that:

In this problem, we will have to apply the chain rule twice. This is because the  is inside the sine function which is inside the cosine function.

In this problem, , and we have another function 

For this problem, we are using the chain rule in this form:

To evaluate these derivatives, we need the power rule and the derivatives of sine and cosine which state:

Now, plugging these equations into the chain rule, we obtain:

 

Example Question #396 : Functions

Find the derivative of 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve this problem, we need the derivative of a constant, the derivative of the trigonometric function cosine, and the chain rule.

First, let's rewrite the function in terms of a power:

 Now we should apply the chain rule which states that:

In this problem,  and .

To find  we need to use the power rule, which states:

To find  , we again need to use the chain rule, the derivative of a constant, and the derivative of the rtigonometric function cosine to evaluate  , which state that:

 

Plugging all of these equations back into the chain rule, we obtain:

Example Question #1429 : Calculus

Find the derivative of 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve this problem, we need the derivative of the trigonometric function cotangent, derivative of a constant, and the quotient rule.

First, let's use the quotient rule, which states:

In this problem,   and  .

To find , we need the formula for the derivative of cotangent which states:

 

To find  we also need the derivative of a constant formula which states:

Now combining these into the quotient rule formula, we obtain:

And after some simplification:

Example Question #211 : How To Find Differential Functions

Use implicit differentiation to find 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve this problem, we need the power rule, and the derivative of , which state:

After moving some things around with algebraic techniques, we obtain:

Example Question #212 : How To Find Differential Functions

Find the derivative of 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve this problem, we need the chain rule, the power rule, and the derivative of a constant.

Let's first rewrite the function in terms of a power:

Now we can use the chain rule, which states:

In this problem,  and 

To find  , we need the power rule which states:

To find , we need the power rule and the derivative of a constant which states:

Now, plugging these equations into the chain rule we obtain:

Example Question #212 : How To Find Differential Functions

Find the derivative of 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve this problem, we need the power rule and the chain rule, which state:

First let's apply the chain rule, which states:

In this problem,  and 

To find the , we need the power rule which states:

To find  we again need the power rule:

Now plugging these equations into the chain rule, we obtain:

 

Example Question #213 : How To Find Differential Functions

Find the derivative of the following function

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the derivative of the function we must use the quotient rule.

It states that the derivative of 

 is .

The derivativae of  is  and the derivative of  is  as per the derivative rules.

Thus the final answer is 

Example Question #401 : Differential Functions

Find the slope of the line tangent to the function at .

Possible Answers:

Undefined

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The derivative is the function of the slope at any point of the given function. Thus we must find the derivative and then plug in 2 for x to get the slope of the tangent line.

The derivative of  is . The derivative of  is . So the derivative function is

plugging in  gives

.

Example Question #211 : How To Find Differential Functions

Find the derivative of the following function.

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The approach to this derivative is to realize that it is a function within a function and that we must use the chain rule.

The chain rule states the derivative of  is .

The derivative of  is  and the derivative of  is .

That makes the derivative of the function

.

Example Question #215 : How To Find Differential Functions

Find the derivative of 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve this problem, we need the power rule, the derivative of a constant, the product rule, and the chain rule.

Since our function is written as a product, we will first apply the product rule which states:

In this problem,  and .

To find  we need to use the power rule and the derivative of a constant which state that:

To find  we need to use the chain rule, the power rule, and the derivative of a constant. The chain rule states that:

In this problem,  and 

To find  we need the power rule.

To find  we need the power rule and the derivative of a constant once again.

Plugging these equations back into the chain rule, we obtain:

Now plugging this back into the product rule, we obtain:

After some simplification, we have:

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