Calculus Examples

$f (x) = \cos (\sin (x))$

Step 1

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

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Step 1.1

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

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

Step 1.2

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

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

Step 1.3

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

$- \sin (\sin (x)) \frac{d}{d x} [\sin (x)]$

Step 2

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

$- \sin (\sin (x)) \cos (x)$

Step 3

Reorder the factors of $- \sin (\sin (x)) \cos (x)$ .

$- \cos (x) \sin (\sin (x))$