Calculus Examples

$\arctan (x)$

Step 1

Find the first derivative.

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Step 1.1

Find the first derivative.

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Step 1.1.1

The derivative of $\arctan (x)$ with respect to $x$ is $\frac{1}{1 + x^{2}}$ .

$\frac{1}{1 + x^{2}}$

Step 1.1.2

Reorder terms.

$f' (x) = \frac{1}{x^{2} + 1}$

Step 1.2

The first derivative of $f (x)$ with respect to $x$ is $\frac{1}{x^{2} + 1}$ .

$\frac{1}{x^{2} + 1}$

Step 2

Set the first derivative equal to $0$ then solve the equation $\frac{1}{x^{2} + 1} = 0$ .

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Step 2.1

Set the first derivative equal to $0$ .

$\frac{1}{x^{2} + 1} = 0$

Step 2.2

Set the numerator equal to zero.

$1 = 0$

Step 2.3

Since $1 \neq 0$ , there are no solutions.

No solution

Step 3

Find the values where the derivative is undefined.

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Step 3.1

The domain of the expression is all real numbers except where the expression is undefined. In this case, there is no real number that makes the expression undefined.

Step 4

There are no values of $x$ in the domain of the original problem where the derivative is $0$ or undefined.

No critical points found