Differentiation, derivatives and Taylor approximations: Differentiating trigonometric functions and their inverse functions
Derivatives of trigonometric functions and their inverse functions
The table below lists the derivatives of the trigonometric functions and their inverses.
What is immediately striking is that the derivative of a trigonometric function again is a trigonometric function. More generally, the derivative of a periodic function is also itself again a periodic function. Also notable is that the derivative of an inverse trigonometric function is a function which contains no trigonometric function anymore.
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