Chapter 05 · Derivatives
05.08
Derivatives of Compositions
The chain rule for compositions: the derivative of the outside, evaluated at the inside, times the derivative of the inside.
About 40 minutes
You'll learn to
- →Identify the inside and outside functions of a composition
- →State and apply the chain rule in Leibniz and function notation
- →Use the general power rule
- →Differentiate compositions of three or more functions
- →Combine the chain rule with the product and quotient rules