Derivative of y=sec^4x-tan^4x

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   4         4   
sec (x) - tan (x)

$$- \tan^{4}{\left(x \right)} + \sec^{4}{\left(x \right)}$$

sec(x)^4 - tan(x)^4

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Differentiate $- \tan^{4}{\left(x \right)} + \sec^{4}{\left(x \right)}$ term by term:
1. Let $u = \sec{\left(x \right)}$ .
2. Apply the power rule: $u^{4}$ goes to $4 u^{3}$
3. Then, apply the chain rule. Multiply by $\frac{d}{d x} \sec{\left(x \right)}$ :
  1. Rewrite the function to be differentiated:
    
    $\sec{\left(x \right)} = \frac{1}{\cos{\left(x \right)}}$
  2. Let $u = \cos{\left(x \right)}$ .
  3. Apply the power rule: $\frac{1}{u}$ goes to $- \frac{1}{u^{2}}$
  4. Then, apply the chain rule. Multiply by $\frac{d}{d x} \cos{\left(x \right)}$ :
    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:
    
    $\frac{\sin{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
  The result of the chain rule is:
  
  $\frac{4 \sin{\left(x \right)} \sec^{3}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
4. The derivative of a constant times a function is the constant times the derivative of the function.
  1. Let $u = \tan{\left(x \right)}$ .
  2. Apply the power rule: $u^{4}$ goes to $4 u^{3}$
  3. Then, apply the chain rule. Multiply by $\frac{d}{d x} \tan{\left(x \right)}$ :
    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:
      
      $\frac{\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
    The result of the chain rule is:
    
    $\frac{4 \left(\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}\right) \tan^{3}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
  So, the result is: $- \frac{4 \left(\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}\right) \tan^{3}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
The result is: $- \frac{4 \left(\sin^{2}{\left(x \right)} + \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}\right) \tan^{3}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}} + \frac{4 \sin{\left(x \right)} \sec^{3}{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$
Now simplify:

$\frac{4 \tan{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$

The answer is:

$\frac{4 \tan{\left(x \right)}}{\cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}$

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The first derivative [src]

     3    /         2   \        4          
- tan (x)*\4 + 4*tan (x)/ + 4*sec (x)*tan(x)

$$- \left(4 \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 4\right) \tan^{3}{\left(x \right)} + 4 \tan{\left(x \right)} \sec^{4}{\left(x \right)}$$

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  /                                       2                                                      \
  |   4    /       2   \     /       2   \     2           4    /       2   \        4       2   |
4*\sec (x)*\1 + tan (x)/ - 3*\1 + tan (x)/ *tan (x) - 2*tan (x)*\1 + tan (x)/ + 4*sec (x)*tan (x)/

$$4 \left(- 3 \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right)^{2} \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} - 2 \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right) \tan^{4}{\left(x \right)} + \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right) \sec^{4}{\left(x \right)} + 4 \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} \sec^{4}{\left(x \right)}\right)$$

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The third derivative [src]

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  |    /       2   \       /       2   \     2           4    /       2   \        4    /       2   \        4       2   |       
8*\- 3*\1 + tan (x)/  - 10*\1 + tan (x)/ *tan (x) - 2*tan (x)*\1 + tan (x)/ + 7*sec (x)*\1 + tan (x)/ + 8*sec (x)*tan (x)/*tan(x)

$$8 \left(- 3 \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right)^{3} - 10 \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right)^{2} \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} - 2 \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right) \tan^{4}{\left(x \right)} + 7 \left(\tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} + 1\right) \sec^{4}{\left(x \right)} + 8 \tan^{2}{\left(x \right)} \sec^{4}{\left(x \right)}\right) \tan{\left(x \right)}$$

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