Calculus Examples

$e^{x^{5}}$

Step 1

Differentiate using the chain rule, which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [f (g (x))]$ is $f' (g (x)) g' (x)$ where $f (x) = e^{x}$ and $g (x) = x^{5}$ .

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Step 1.1

To apply the Chain Rule, set $u$ as $x^{5}$ .

$\frac{d}{d u} [e^{u}] \frac{d}{d x} [x^{5}]$

Step 1.2

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

$e^{u} \frac{d}{d x} [x^{5}]$

Step 1.3

Replace all occurrences of $u$ with $x^{5}$ .

$e^{x^{5}} \frac{d}{d x} [x^{5}]$

Step 2

Differentiate using the Power Rule which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [x^{n}]$ is $n x^{n - 1}$ where $n = 5$ .

$e^{x^{5}} (5 x^{4})$

Step 3

Simplify.

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Step 3.1

Reorder the factors of $e^{x^{5}} (5 x^{4})$ .

$5 e^{x^{5}} x^{4}$

Step 3.2

Reorder factors in $5 e^{x^{5}} x^{4}$ .

$5 x^{4} e^{x^{5}}$