This document discusses how to find the derivatives of inverse trigonometric functions using the chain rule. It explains that you must let u equal the "inside function" and then apply the chain rule, deriving the inside function with respect to x and multiplying it by the derivative of the inverse trig function evaluated at u.

1. Discovering inverse trig derivatives ...
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8. Derivatives of Inverse Trigonometric Functions
Let u be a differentiable function of x.
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