Derivative of sin(cosx)

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sin(cos(x))

\sin{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)}

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--(sin(cos(x)))
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\frac{d}{d x} \sin{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)}

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Detail solution

Let $u = \cos{\left(x \right)}$ .
The derivative of sine is cosine:

$\frac{d}{d u} \sin{\left(u \right)} = \cos{\left(u \right)}$
Then, apply the chain rule. Multiply by $\frac{d}{d x} \cos{\left(x \right)}$ :
1. The derivative of cosine is negative sine:
  
  $\frac{d}{d x} \cos{\left(x \right)} = - \sin{\left(x \right)}$
The result of the chain rule is:

$- \sin{\left(x \right)} \cos{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)}$

The answer is:

- \sin{\left(x \right)} \cos{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)}

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The first derivative [src]

-cos(cos(x))*sin(x)

- \sin{\left(x \right)} \cos{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)}

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The second derivative [src]

 /   2                                    \
-\sin (x)*sin(cos(x)) + cos(x)*cos(cos(x))/

- (\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} \sin{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)} + \cos{\left(x \right)} \cos{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)})

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The third derivative [src]

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\sin (x)*cos(cos(x)) - 3*cos(x)*sin(cos(x)) + cos(cos(x))/*sin(x)

\left(\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} \cos{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)} - 3 \sin{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)} \cos{\left(x \right)} + \cos{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)}\right) \sin{\left(x \right)}

Simplify

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