Derivative of (tg(x)-ctg(x))

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tan(x) - cot(x)

\tan{\left(x \right)} - \cot{\left(x \right)}

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--(tan(x) - cot(x))
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\frac{d}{d x} \left(\tan{\left(x \right)} - \cot{\left(x \right)}\right)

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Differentiate $\tan{\left(x \right)} - \cot{\left(x \right)}$ term by term:
1. Rewrite the function to be differentiated:
  
  $\tan{\left(x \right)} = \frac{\sin{\left(x \right)}}{\cos{\left(x \right)}}$
2. Apply the quotient rule, which is:
  
  $\frac{d}{d x} \frac{f{\left(x \right)}}{g{\left(x \right)}} = \frac{- f{\left(x \right)} \frac{d}{d x} g{\left(x \right)} + g{\left(x \right)} \frac{d}{d x} f{\left(x \right)}}{g^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
  
  $f{\left(x \right)} = \sin{\left(x \right)}$ and $g{\left(x \right)} = \cos{\left(x \right)}$ .
  
  To find $\frac{d}{d x} f{\left(x \right)}$ :
  1. The derivative of sine is cosine:
    
    $\frac{d}{d x} \sin{\left(x \right)} = \cos{\left(x \right)}$
  To find $\frac{d}{d x} g{\left(x \right)}$ :
  1. The derivative of cosine is negative sine:
    
    $\frac{d}{d x} \cos{\left(x \right)} = - \sin{\left(x \right)}$
  Now plug in to the quotient rule:
  
  $\frac{\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
3. The derivative of a constant times a function is the constant times the derivative of the function.
  1. There are multiple ways to do this derivative.
    Method #1
    1. Rewrite the function to be differentiated:
      
      $\cot{\left(x \right)} = \frac{1}{\tan{\left(x \right)}}$
    2. Let $u = \tan{\left(x \right)}$ .
    3. Apply the power rule: $\frac{1}{u}$ goes to $- \frac{1}{u^{2}}$
    4. Then, apply the chain rule. Multiply by $\frac{d}{d x} \tan{\left(x \right)}$ :
      
      $\frac{d}{d x} \tan{\left(x \right)} = \frac{1}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
      
      The result of the chain rule is:
      
      $- \frac{\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)} \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
    Method #2
    1. Rewrite the function to be differentiated:
      
      $\cot{\left(x \right)} = \frac{\cos{\left(x \right)}}{\sin{\left(x \right)}}$
    2. Apply the quotient rule, which is:
      
      $\frac{d}{d x} \frac{f{\left(x \right)}}{g{\left(x \right)}} = \frac{- f{\left(x \right)} \frac{d}{d x} g{\left(x \right)} + g{\left(x \right)} \frac{d}{d x} f{\left(x \right)}}{g^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
      
      $f{\left(x \right)} = \cos{\left(x \right)}$ and $g{\left(x \right)} = \sin{\left(x \right)}$ .
      
      To find $\frac{d}{d x} f{\left(x \right)}$ :
      
      The derivative of cosine is negative sine:
      
      $\frac{d}{d x} \cos{\left(x \right)} = - \sin{\left(x \right)}$
      
      To find $\frac{d}{d x} g{\left(x \right)}$ :
      
      The derivative of sine is cosine:
      
      $\frac{d}{d x} \sin{\left(x \right)} = \cos{\left(x \right)}$
      
      Now plug in to the quotient rule:
      
      $\frac{- \sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} - \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}{\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
  So, the result is: $\frac{\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)} \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
The result is: $\frac{\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}} + \frac{\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)} \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
Now simplify:

$\frac{8}{1 - \cos{\left(4 x \right)}}$

The answer is:

\frac{8}{1 - \cos{\left(4 x \right)}}

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The first derivative [src]

       2         2   
2 + cot (x) + tan (x)

\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cot^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 2

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The second derivative [src]

  //       2   \          /       2   \       \
2*\\1 + tan (x)/*tan(x) - \1 + cot (x)/*cot(x)/

2 \left(\left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right) \tan{\left(x \right)} - \left(\cot^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right) \cot{\left(x \right)}\right)

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The third derivative [src]

  /             2                2                                                    \
  |/       2   \    /       2   \         2    /       2   \        2    /       2   \|
2*\\1 + cot (x)/  + \1 + tan (x)/  + 2*cot (x)*\1 + cot (x)/ + 2*tan (x)*\1 + tan (x)//

2 \left(2 \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right) \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 2 \left(\cot^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right) \cot^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right)^{2} + \left(\cot^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right)^{2}\right)

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