1. 8.2 Derivatives of Inverse Trig Functions
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Greg Kelly, Hanford High School, Richland, Washington
Photo by Vickie Kelly, 1993

2. Review of Inverse Trig Functions
Function Inverse Domain Range
You may find the information about cosecant, secant,
and cotangent in your textbook. (They are of less importance)

3. We can use implicit differentiation to find:

4. We can use implicit differentiation to find:
But
so is positive.

5. We could use the same technique to find and. 1
sec d x dx -

6. Example: Find for:

7. Example: Find for:

8. Summary of Integrals Involving Inverse Trig Functions

9. Example: Find:

10. Example: Find:

11. Example: Find: