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Assignment 7
Calculate if:
Solution
Implicit differentiation can also used to calculate the second derivative. In this case the product rule in combination with the quotient rule is applied:
We can differentiate again:
We can verify the result because the original expression can easily be written in explicit form:
and then the first and second derivative can be found in the usual way. Verify this.
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