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Product rule

With the product rule you can calculate the derivative of a product of two functions

 


Explanation

This rule can be explained in an elegant way by calculation with infinitely small transitions

The product gives here

what you can write as

The increase consist of three terms

Substitution in the definition of the derivative gives

The limit of a sum is the sum of the limits, so

where the third term is neglectable. Therefor we get

so

You can guess what the product of 3 functions will look like.

 


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