Parametric derivative

In calculus, a parametric derivative is a derivative of a dependent variable with respect to another dependent variable that is taken when both variables depend on an independent third variable, usually thought of as "time" (that is, when the dependent variables are x and y and are given by parametric equations in t).

## Contents

* 1 First derivative
* 2 Second derivative
* 3 Example
* 4 See also
* 5 External links

## First derivative

Let x(t) and y(t) be the coordinates of the points of the curve expressed as functions of a variable t:

y=y(t),x=x(t).

The first derivative implied by these parametric equations is

dydx=dy/dtdx/dt=y˙(t)x˙(t),

where the notation x˙(t) denotes the derivative of x with respect to t. This can be derived using the chain rule for derivatives:

dydt=dydx⋅dxdt

and dividing both sides by dxdt to give the equation above.

In general all of these derivatives — dy / dt, dx / dt, and dy / dx — are themselves functions of t and so can be written more explicitly as, for example, dydx(t).

## Second derivative

The second derivative implied by a parametric equation is given by d2ydx2=ddx(dydx)=ddt(dydx)⋅dtdx=ddt(y˙x˙)1x˙=x˙y¨−y˙x¨x˙3

by making use of the quotient rule for derivatives. The latter result is useful in the computation of curvature.

## Example

For example, consider the set of functions where:

x(t)=4t2

and

y(t)=3t.

Differentiating both functions with respect to t leads to

dxdt=8t

and

dydt=3,

respectively. Substituting these into the formula for the parametric derivative, we obtain

dydx=y˙x˙=38t,

where x˙ and y˙ are understood to be functions of t.

## See also

* Generalizations of the derivative

## External links

* Derivative for parametric form at PlanetMath.org.
* Harris, John W.; Stöcker, Horst (1998). "12.2.12 Differentiation of functions in parametric representation". Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 495–497. ISBN 0387947469. https://archive.org/details/handbookofmathem00harr/page/495.

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