Calculus Examples

$y = \ln (\tan (3 x))$

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 $g (x) = \tan (3 x)$ .

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Step 1.1

To apply the Chain Rule, set $u_{1}$ as $\tan (3 x)$ .

$\frac{d}{d u_{1}} [\ln (u_{1})] \frac{d}{d x} [\tan (3 x)]$

Step 1.2

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

$\frac{1}{u_{1}} \frac{d}{d x} [\tan (3 x)]$

Step 1.3

Replace all occurrences of $u_{1}$ with $\tan (3 x)$ .

$\frac{1}{\tan (3 x)} \frac{d}{d x} [\tan (3 x)]$

Step 2

Rewrite $\tan (3 x)$ in terms of sines and cosines.

$\frac{1}{\frac{\sin (3 x)}{\cos (3 x)}} \frac{d}{d x} [\tan (3 x)]$

Step 3

Multiply by the reciprocal of the fraction to divide by $\frac{\sin (3 x)}{\cos (3 x)}$ .

$\frac{\cos (3 x)}{\sin (3 x)} \frac{d}{d x} [\tan (3 x)]$

Step 4

Convert from $\frac{\cos (3 x)}{\sin (3 x)}$ to $\cot (3 x)$ .

$\cot (3 x) \frac{d}{d x} [\tan (3 x)]$

Step 5

Differentiate using the chain rule, which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [f (g (x))]$ is $f' (g (x)) g' (x)$ where $f (x) = \tan (x)$ and $g (x) = 3 x$ .

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Step 5.1

To apply the Chain Rule, set $u_{2}$ as $3 x$ .

$\cot (3 x) (\frac{d}{d u_{2}} [\tan (u_{2})] \frac{d}{d x} [3 x])$

Step 5.2

The derivative of $\tan (u_{2})$ with respect to $u_{2}$ is $\sec^{2} (u_{2})$ .

$\cot (3 x) (\sec^{2} (u_{2}) \frac{d}{d x} [3 x])$

Step 5.3

Replace all occurrences of $u_{2}$ with $3 x$ .

$\cot (3 x) (\sec^{2} (3 x) \frac{d}{d x} [3 x])$

Step 6

Differentiate.

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Step 6.1

Since $3$ is constant with respect to $x$ , the derivative of $3 x$ with respect to $x$ is $3 \frac{d}{d x} [x]$ .

$\cot (3 x) \sec^{2} (3 x) (3 \frac{d}{d x} [x])$

Step 6.2

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

$\cot (3 x) \sec^{2} (3 x) (3 \cdot 1)$

Step 6.3

Simplify the expression.

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Step 6.3.1

Multiply $3$ by $1$ .

$\cot (3 x) \sec^{2} (3 x) \cdot 3$

Step 6.3.2

Move $3$ to the left of $\cot (3 x) \sec^{2} (3 x)$ .

$3 \cdot (\cot (3 x) \sec^{2} (3 x))$

Step 6.3.3

Reorder the factors of $3 \cot (3 x) \sec^{2} (3 x)$ .

$3 \sec^{2} (3 x) \cot (3 x)$