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Example Question #21 : Find The Second Derivative Of A Function
Find the second derivative of the function
Use the product rule to get the first derivative.
Let and
Use the product rule again for the second derivative.
Example Question #41 : Derivatives
Find the second derivative of .
To derive, use the power rule for derivatives.
Find the first derivative by taking the derivative of each term.
Take the derivative of .
Example Question #21 : Find The Second Derivative Of A Function
Determine the second derivative with the respect to x:
To solve this, we first need to know the derivative of with the respect to
.
This problem will also involve the chain rule, which means that there we will need to take the derivative of the inner function inside , since the power is not to the power of
.
Find the first derivative.
Find the second derivative by differentiating the first derivative.
The answer is:
Example Question #21 : Find The Second Derivative Of A Function
Find the second dervative for the following function.
To find the second derivative, simply take the dervative twice according to the rules of derivatives.
Example Question #22 : Find The Second Derivative Of A Function
Find the second derivative of the following equation:
To solve, simply realize a constant derived is always 0. Thus, the answer is 0.
Example Question #23 : Find The Second Derivative Of A Function
Find the second derivative of the following function:
To solve, simply differentiate twice use the power rule, as outlined below.
Power rule:
Also, remember the derivative of a constant is 0.
Thus,
Example Question #24 : Find The Second Derivative Of A Function
Find the second derivative of the function .
.
.
To find the first derivative, apply the product rule, , to the original function, where
and
, to get
+
. We then apply the product rule to
to arrive at
, and take the derivative of
to get
. Combining these two, we get the final answer,
.
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