Calculus Examples

$\ln (e^{x} + x)$

Step 1

Differentiate using the chain rule, which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [f (g (x))]$ is $f' (g (x)) g' (x)$ where $f (x) = \ln (x)$ and $g (x) = e^{x} + x$ .

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Step 1.1

To apply the Chain Rule, set $u$ as $e^{x} + x$ .

$\frac{d}{d u} [\ln (u)] \frac{d}{d x} [e^{x} + x]$

Step 1.2

The derivative of $\ln (u)$ with respect to $u$ is $\frac{1}{u}$ .

$\frac{1}{u} \frac{d}{d x} [e^{x} + x]$

Step 1.3

Replace all occurrences of $u$ with $e^{x} + x$ .

$\frac{1}{e^{x} + x} \frac{d}{d x} [e^{x} + x]$

Step 2

By the Sum Rule, the derivative of $e^{x} + x$ with respect to $x$ is $\frac{d}{d x} [e^{x}] + \frac{d}{d x} [x]$ .

$\frac{1}{e^{x} + x} (\frac{d}{d x} [e^{x}] + \frac{d}{d x} [x])$

Step 3

Differentiate using the Exponential Rule which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [a^{x}]$ is $a^{x} \ln (a)$ where $a$ = $e$ .

$\frac{1}{e^{x} + x} (e^{x} + \frac{d}{d x} [x])$

Step 4

Differentiate using the Power Rule which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [x^{n}]$ is $n x^{n - 1}$ where $n = 1$ .

$\frac{1}{e^{x} + x} (e^{x} + 1)$

Step 5

Simplify.

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Step 5.1

Reorder the factors of $\frac{1}{e^{x} + x} (e^{x} + 1)$ .

$(e^{x} + 1) \frac{1}{e^{x} + x}$

Step 5.2

Multiply $e^{x} + 1$ by $\frac{1}{e^{x} + x}$ .

$\frac{e^{x} + 1}{e^{x} + x}$