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Other Trig Functions

Using the limits in the last section you can derive derivatives for both the sine and cosine functions. Since all other trigonometric functions can be defined in terms of the sine and cosine this is suficient.

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Of these only the tangent and the secant get heavy use in calculus courses (mostly in the section on techniques of integration). For that purpose there are some useful identities:

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Relevant derivatives are then calculated using the quotient rule:

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Tue Mar 23 13:29:34 CST 1999