Derivative of the cosecant of a fractional power: ![]()
Via the Scalar Multiple rule, we can treat this as
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We can go a step further and consider it as involving a quantity u:
, where
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When we eventually apply the Chain Rule, we'll need
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Combining these partial results and using the derivative of the cosecant, we get
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Finally, we substitute for u:
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Note that the argument of the cosecant and cotangent in the result is the same as the argument of the cosecant in the original problem.