Derivative of e^(a*x) with respect to x

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e^{a x}

with respect to

x

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Find $\frac{d}{dx} \left(e^{a x}\right)$ .

Solution

The function $e^{a x}$ is the composition $f{\left(g{\left(x \right)} \right)}$ of two functions $f{\left(u \right)} = e^{u}$ and $g{\left(x \right)} = a x$ .

Apply the chain rule $\frac{d}{dx} \left(f{\left(g{\left(x \right)} \right)}\right) = \frac{d}{du} \left(f{\left(u \right)}\right) \frac{d}{dx} \left(g{\left(x \right)}\right)$ :

{\color{red}\left(\frac{d}{dx} \left(e^{a x}\right)\right)} = {\color{red}\left(\frac{d}{du} \left(e^{u}\right) \frac{d}{dx} \left(a x\right)\right)}

The derivative of the exponential is $\frac{d}{du} \left(e^{u}\right) = e^{u}$ :

{\color{red}\left(\frac{d}{du} \left(e^{u}\right)\right)} \frac{d}{dx} \left(a x\right) = {\color{red}\left(e^{u}\right)} \frac{d}{dx} \left(a x\right)

Return to the old variable:

e^{{\color{red}\left(u\right)}} \frac{d}{dx} \left(a x\right) = e^{{\color{red}\left(a x\right)}} \frac{d}{dx} \left(a x\right)

Apply the constant multiple rule $\frac{d}{dx} \left(c f{\left(x \right)}\right) = c \frac{d}{dx} \left(f{\left(x \right)}\right)$ with $c = a$ and $f{\left(x \right)} = x$ :

e^{a x} {\color{red}\left(\frac{d}{dx} \left(a x\right)\right)} = e^{a x} {\color{red}\left(a \frac{d}{dx} \left(x\right)\right)}

Apply the power rule $\frac{d}{dx} \left(x^{n}\right) = n x^{n - 1}$ with $n = 1$ , in other words, $\frac{d}{dx} \left(x\right) = 1$ :

a e^{a x} {\color{red}\left(\frac{d}{dx} \left(x\right)\right)} = a e^{a x} {\color{red}\left(1\right)}

Thus, $\frac{d}{dx} \left(e^{a x}\right) = a e^{a x}$ .

Answer

$\frac{d}{dx} \left(e^{a x}\right) = a e^{a x}$ A

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