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Calculus I - Derivatives of Hyperbolic Functions

This document discusses derivatives of hyperbolic functions. There are six hyperbolic functions - sinh, cosh, tanh, coth, sech, and csch - which are defined in terms of exponential functions. The derivatives of the six hyperbolic functions are provided. Examples are given of differentiating functions involving hyperbolic functions using the derivatives.

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Calculus I - Derivatives of Hyperbolic Functions

This document discusses derivatives of hyperbolic functions. There are six hyperbolic functions - sinh, cosh, tanh, coth, sech, and csch - which are defined in terms of exponential functions. The derivatives of the six hyperbolic functions are provided. Examples are given of differentiating functions involving hyperbolic functions using the derivatives.

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Section 3.8 : Derivatives Of Hyperbolic Functions


The last set of functions that we’re going to be looking in this chapter at are the
hyperbolic functions. In many physical situations combinations of ex and e−x arise
fairly often. Because of this these combinations are given names. There are six
hyperbolic functions and they are defined as follows.

ex − e−x ex + e−x
sinh x = cosh x =
2 2
sinh x cosh x 1
tanh x = coth x = =
cosh x sinh x tanh x
1 1
sech x = csch x =
cosh x sinh x
Here are the graphs of the three main hyperbolic functions.
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We also have the following facts about the hyperbolic functions.

sinh(−x) = − sinh(x) cosh(−x) = cosh(x)


cosh2 (x) − sinh2 (x) = 1 1 − tanh2 (x) = sech2 (x)

You’ll note that these are similar, but not quite the same, to some of the more
common trig identities so be careful to not confuse the identities here with those of
the standard trig functions.

Because the hyperbolic functions are defined in terms of exponential functions


finding their derivatives is fairly simple provided you’ve already read through the
next section. We haven’t however so we’ll need the following formula that can be
easily proved after we’ve covered the next section.

d −x
(e ) = −e−x
dx
With this formula we’ll do the derivative for hyperbolic sine and leave the rest to
you as an exercise.

e e e − (−e− ) e e
:
d ex − e−x ex − (−e−x ) ex + e−x
( )=
d
(sinh x) = = = cosh x
dx dx 2 2 2

For the rest we can either use the definition of the hyperbolic function and/or the
quotient rule. Here are all six derivatives.

d d
(sinh x) = cosh x (cosh x) = sinh x
dx dx
d d
(tanh x) = sech2 x (coth x) = −csch2 x
dx dx
d d
(sech x) = −sech x tanh x (csch x) = −csch x coth x
dx dx

Here are a couple of quick derivatives using hyperbolic functions.

Example 1 Differentiate each of the following functions.


(a) f (x) = 2x5 cosh x

sinh t
(b) h (t) =
t+1

Show Solution !

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