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Chain Rule (Lecture 7)

This lecture covers the Chain Rule in differentiation, including its formula and application to composite functions. It provides illustrative examples and practice exercises for finding derivatives using the Chain Rule. Solutions to the exercises are also included to reinforce understanding of the concepts presented.

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Chain Rule (Lecture 7)

This lecture covers the Chain Rule in differentiation, including its formula and application to composite functions. It provides illustrative examples and practice exercises for finding derivatives using the Chain Rule. Solutions to the exercises are also included to reinforce understanding of the concepts presented.

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Business Mathematics

Lecture 7
Chain Rule

Prepared By: Dr C.S Marange & Mr R.T Chiruka


University of Fort Hare
Department of Computational Sciences
Differentiation

Issues

1. SI Leader and SI Sessions (Inam Bonde)


2. Tutors and Tutorials
3. Tutorial Test 1: Next Week Wednesday
Basic Rules of Differentiation – Rule 8

1. Chain Rule
The Chain Rule: Formula

dy dy du
 
dx du dx
Illustrative Example
Deriving Composite Functions using the Chain Rule

f ( x)  x  1
2
 Consider the function 2

 To compute f ’(x), we can first expand f (x)

f ( x)  x  1  x 2 1 x 2 1
2 2

x 4  2 x 2 1

and then differentiate the resulting polynomial

f ( x) 4 x 3  4 x

 But how should we derive a function like…

g ( x)  x  1
2 100
Deriving Composite Functions using the Chain Rule
To find the derivative of the composite function g (x):
 We let u = x2 + 1 and y = u100.
 Then we find the derivatives of each of these functions
du dy
2 x and 100u 99
dx du
 The ratios of these derivatives suggest that

dy dy du
  100u 99 .2 x
dx du dx

 Substituting x2 + 1 for u we get

dy
g ( x)  100  x  1 .2 x 200 x( x 2  1)99
2 99

dx
Practice Exercise
Find the derivative (solutions to follow)

1) f ( x) (3 x  5 x 2 )7

2) f ( x) 3 ( x 2  1) 2

7
3) f (t ) 
(2t  3) 2
Solutions
1) f ( x) (3 x  5 x 2 )7

2 du
u 3 x  5 x  3  10 x
dx
dy
y u 7  7u 6
du

dy dy du
 
dx du dx

dy
7u 6 (3  10 x)
dx
dy
7(3 x  5 x 2 )6 (3  10 x)
dx
Solutions
2) f ( x) 3 ( x 2  1) 2

du
u x 2  1  2 x
dx
2 1
dy 2 
y u 3   u 3
du 3
1
dy 2 
 u 3 (2 x )
dx 3
1
dy 2 2 
 ( x  1) 3 (2 x )
dx 3
dy 4x
 1
dx
3( x 2  1) 3
Solutions
7
3) f (t )   7(2t  3)  2
(2t  3) 2

du
u 2t  3  2
dt
dy
y  7u  2  14u  3
du
dy dy du
 
dt du dt
dy
14u  3 2
dt
dy 3 28
14(2t  3) (2) 
dt (2t  3)3
Class Work
Use a substitution to differentiate each
function (Exercise 2E)

1) f ( x) (3 x  1) 2

2) f ( x)  (3 x 2  4)

1
3) f (t ) 
(t 4  4)3
Thank you

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