Calculus Examples

$y = \sin^{4} (x)$

Step 1

Differentiate using the chain rule, which states that $\frac{d}{d x} [f (g (x))]$ is $f' (g (x)) g' (x)$ where $f (x) = x^{4}$ and $g (x) = \sin (x)$ .

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Step 1.1

To apply the Chain Rule, set $u$ as $\sin (x)$ .

$\frac{d}{d u} [u^{4}] \frac{d}{d x} [\sin (x)]$

Step 1.2

Differentiate using the Power Rule which states that $\frac{d}{d u} [u^{n}]$ is $n u^{n - 1}$ where $n = 4$ .

$4 u^{3} \frac{d}{d x} [\sin (x)]$

Step 1.3

Replace all occurrences of $u$ with $\sin (x)$ .

$4 \sin^{3} (x) \frac{d}{d x} [\sin (x)]$

Step 2

The derivative of $\sin (x)$ with respect to $x$ is $\cos (x)$ .

$4 \sin^{3} (x) \cos (x)$