Calculus Examples

$q = \sqrt{20 r - r^{7}}$

Step 1

Use $\sqrt[n]{a^{x}} = a^{\frac{x}{n}}$ to rewrite $\sqrt{20 r - r^{7}}$ as ${(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}$ .

$q = {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}$

Step 2

Differentiate both sides of the equation.

$\frac{d}{d r} (q) = \frac{d}{d r} ({(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}})$

Step 3

The derivative of $q$ with respect to $r$ is $q'$ .

$q'$

Step 4

Differentiate the right side of the equation.

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Step 4.1

Differentiate using the chain rule, which states that $\frac{d}{d r} [f (g (r))]$ is $f' (g (r)) g' (r)$ where $f (r) = r^{\frac{1}{2}}$ and $g (r) = 20 r - r^{7}$ .

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Step 4.1.1

To apply the Chain Rule, set $u$ as $20 r - r^{7}$ .

$\frac{d}{d u} [u^{\frac{1}{2}}] \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.1.2

Differentiate using the Power Rule which states that $\frac{d}{d u} [u^{n}]$ is $n u^{n - 1}$ where $n = \frac{1}{2}$ .

$\frac{1}{2} u^{\frac{1}{2} - 1} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.1.3

Replace all occurrences of $u$ with $20 r - r^{7}$ .

$\frac{1}{2} {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2} - 1} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.2

To write $- 1$ as a fraction with a common denominator, multiply by $\frac{2}{2}$ .

$\frac{1}{2} {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2} - 1 \cdot \frac{2}{2}} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.3

Combine $- 1$ and $\frac{2}{2}$ .

$\frac{1}{2} {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2} + \frac{- 1 \cdot 2}{2}} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.4

Combine the numerators over the common denominator.

$\frac{1}{2} {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1 - 1 \cdot 2}{2}} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.5

Simplify the numerator.

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Step 4.5.1

Multiply $- 1$ by $2$ .

$\frac{1}{2} {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1 - 2}{2}} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.5.2

Subtract $2$ from $1$ .

$\frac{1}{2} {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{- 1}{2}} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.6

Combine fractions.

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Step 4.6.1

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$\frac{1}{2} {(20 r - r^{7})}^{- \frac{1}{2}} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.6.2

Combine $\frac{1}{2}$ and ${(20 r - r^{7})}^{- \frac{1}{2}}$ .

$\frac{{(20 r - r^{7})}^{- \frac{1}{2}}}{2} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.6.3

Move ${(20 r - r^{7})}^{- \frac{1}{2}}$ to the denominator using the negative exponent rule $b^{- n} = \frac{1}{b^{n}}$ .

$\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} \frac{d}{d r} [20 r - r^{7}]$

Step 4.7

By the Sum Rule, the derivative of $20 r - r^{7}$ with respect to $r$ is $\frac{d}{d r} [20 r] + \frac{d}{d r} [- r^{7}]$ .

$\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} (\frac{d}{d r} [20 r] + \frac{d}{d r} [- r^{7}])$

Step 4.8

Since $20$ is constant with respect to $r$ , the derivative of $20 r$ with respect to $r$ is $20 \frac{d}{d r} [r]$ .

$\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} (20 \frac{d}{d r} [r] + \frac{d}{d r} [- r^{7}])$

Step 4.9

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

$\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} (20 \cdot 1 + \frac{d}{d r} [- r^{7}])$

Step 4.10

Multiply $20$ by $1$ .

$\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} (20 + \frac{d}{d r} [- r^{7}])$

Step 4.11

Since $- 1$ is constant with respect to $r$ , the derivative of $- r^{7}$ with respect to $r$ is $- \frac{d}{d r} [r^{7}]$ .

$\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} (20 - \frac{d}{d r} [r^{7}])$

Step 4.12

Differentiate using the Power Rule which states that $\frac{d}{d r} [r^{n}]$ is $n r^{n - 1}$ where $n = 7$ .

$\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} (20 - (7 r^{6}))$

Step 4.13

Multiply $7$ by $- 1$ .

$\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} (20 - 7 r^{6})$

Step 4.14

Simplify.

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Step 4.14.1

Reorder the factors of $\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}} (20 - 7 r^{6})$ .

$(20 - 7 r^{6}) \frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}}$

Step 4.14.2

Multiply $20 - 7 r^{6}$ by $\frac{1}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}}$ .

$\frac{20 - 7 r^{6}}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}}$

Step 5

Reform the equation by setting the left side equal to the right side.

$q' = \frac{20 - 7 r^{6}}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}}$

Step 6

Replace $q'$ with $\frac{d q}{d r}$ .

$\frac{d q}{d r} = \frac{20 - 7 r^{6}}{2 {(20 r - r^{7})}^{\frac{1}{2}}}$