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Onyx

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Registered: 2009-02-24

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arccsc arcsec arccot derivatives

I've forgotten the derivatives of these functions, and this page gives the derivatives:

http://www.analyzemath.com/calculus/Differentiation/inverse_trigonometric.html

but when I tried to derive them myself I got different answers. What am I doing wrong?

arccsc:

arcsec:

arccot:

luca-deltodesco

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Re: arccsc arcsec arccot derivatives

you are correct; you just need to manipulate your equations a little further

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Onyx

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Registered: 2009-02-24

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Re: arccsc arcsec arccot derivatives

Ah of course, thanks.