In my textbook i have the problem:
f(x)=cos^-1(sin(x))
And the answer in the back of the textbook is -1
What i did was:
f'(x) = -1/(sqrt(1-sin(x)^2) * cos(x)
f'(x) = (-cos(x))/(sqrt(1-sin(x)^2))
But i can't see where i went wrong, any ideas?
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In my textbook i have the problem:
f(x)=cos^-1(sin(x))
And the answer in the back of the textbook is -1
What i did was:
f'(x) = -1/(sqrt(1-sin(x)^2) * cos(x)
f'(x) = (-cos(x))/(sqrt(1-sin(x)^2))
But i can't see where i went wrong, any ideas?
(we can take the positive square root, because we only define an inverse for cosine on the interval [0,pi]).
note that:
f(x) = cos-1(sin(x)) = cos-1(cos(π/2 - x)) = π/2 - x.
it's pretty clear that for f(x) = π/2 - x, f'(x) = -1.
Hello, mariusg!
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Differentiate: .
And the answer in the back of the textbook is -1.
What i did was:
But i can't see where i went wrong . . . any ideas?
You did nothing wrong . . . except stop too soon.
You have: .
You know this, don't you?
. .
Got it?