How do you find the derivative of #(ln tan(x))^2#?
1 Answer
How? Use the chain rule -- twice.
And simplify the answer. (Often simplifying is the tricky part.)
The derivative of some stuff squared is two times the stuff, times the derivative of that stuff.
Formally : the derivative of
In this case the "inside stuff", the
The derivative of the
Formally : the derivative of
Finally, we need to know the derivative of
The derivative of
Now, we've finished the calculus, but we can re-write our answer in simpler form.
and
The second equality wouldn't be helpful, except that
Therefore we can re-write the derivative using:
Which is surely more simply written as
So
The derivative of
(If there's any advantage to it, we could also re-write