How do you find the derivative of arctan(x^2y)?

1 Answer
May 28, 2018

d/dx(arctan(x^2y)) = (2xy)/(1 + (x^2y)^2)

Explanation:

So, basically, you want to find d/dx(arctan(x^2y)).

We need to first observe that y and x have no relation to each other in the expression. This observation is very important, since now y can be treated as a constant with respect to x.

We first apply chain rule:
d/dx(arctan(x^2y)) = d/(d(x^2y))(arctan(x^2y)) xx d/dx(x^2y) = 1/(1 + (x^2y)^2) xx d/dx(x^2y).

Here, as we mentioned earlier, y is a constant with respect to x. So,

d/dx(x^2 color(red)(y)) = color(red)(y) xx d/dx(x^2) = 2xy

So, d/dx(arctan(x^2y)) = 1/(1 + (x^2y)^2) xx 2xy = (2xy)/(1 + (x^2y)^2)