Engineering
Mathematics
Successive Differentiation
Question

 d2xdy2 equals

\(\left( {\frac{{{d^2}y}}{{d{x^2}}}} \right){\left( {\frac{{dy}}{{dx}}} \right)^{ - 2}}\)

\( - {\left( {\frac{{{d^2}y}}{{d{x^2}}}} \right)^{ - 1}}{\left( {\frac{{dy}}{{dx}}} \right)^{ - 3}}\)

\({\left( {\frac{{{d^2}y}}{{d{x^2}}}} \right)^{ - 1}}\)

\( - \left( {\frac{{{d^2}y}}{{d{x^2}}}} \right)\,{\left( {\frac{{dy}}{{dx}}} \right)^{ - 3}}\)

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Solution

\(\frac{{dy}}{{dx}} = \frac{1}{{\frac{{dx}}{{dy}}}}\)

\(\frac{{{d^2}y}}{{d{x^2}}} = \frac{d}{{dx}}\left( {\frac{1}{{dx/dy}}} \right) = \frac{d}{{dy}}\left( {\frac{1}{{dx/dy}}} \right)\frac{{dy}}{{dx}} = - \frac{1}{{{{\left( {\frac{{dx}}{{dy}}} \right)}^2}}}.\frac{{\frac{{{d^2}x}}{{d{y^2}}}}}{{\frac{{dx}}{{dy}}}} = \frac{{ - \frac{{{d^2}x}}{{d{y^2}}}}}{{{{\left( {\frac{{dx}}{{dy}}} \right)}^3}}}\)