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4. Extending differentiation and integration
Differentiating 
Without the knowledge of information in Core 3, a student might wish to differentiate the aforementioned function using the rather cumbersome method of binomial expansion. For example:
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This might suggest a link however, and this can be further investigated using a general case:
Hence:
A factor of "a" can be taken out, giving:
Now,
So a factor of "n" can be taken from all the terms:
Hence:
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This can be extended to functions other than powers:
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Integrating
Integration can also be covered using a similar rule:
![\int (ax + b)^{n} \,dx = \left[ \frac{1}{n + 1} a^{n} {n \choose 0} x^{n + 1} + \frac{1}{n} ba^{n - 1} {n \choose 1} x^{n} + ... + b^{n} {n \choose n} x \right] + C](http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/latexrender/pictures/27/277336e1750aa651d1f9e9f52dda5f65.png "\int (ax + b)^{n} \,dx = \left[ \frac{1}{n + 1} a^{n} {n \choose 0} x^{n + 1} + \frac{1}{n} ba^{n - 1} {n \choose 1} x^{n} + ... + b^{n} {n \choose n} x \right] + C")
![\left[ \frac{1}{n + 1} a^{n} {n \choose 0} x^{n + 1} + \frac{1}{n} ba^{n - 1} {n \choose 1} x^{n} + ... + b^{n} {n \choose n} x \right]](http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/latexrender/pictures/a9/a9c29326b66e1f670439421f993d4a27.png "\left[ \frac{1}{n + 1} a^{n} {n \choose 0} x^{n + 1} + \frac{1}{n} ba^{n - 1} {n \choose 1} x^{n} + ... + b^{n} {n \choose n} x \right]")
![\\ = \frac{1}{a} \left[ \frac{1}{n + 1} a^{n+1} {n \choose 0} x^{n + 1} + \frac{1}{n} ba^{n} {n \choose 1} x^{n} + ... + b^{n} {n \choose n} ax \right] \\](http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/latexrender/pictures/5b/5bab102f73d10dbc1fe3ed953d2710a8.png "\\ = \frac{1}{a} \left[ \frac{1}{n + 1} a^{n+1} {n \choose 0} x^{n + 1} + \frac{1}{n} ba^{n} {n \choose 1} x^{n} + ... + b^{n} {n \choose n} ax \right] \\")
![= \frac{1}{a} \left[ \frac{n!}{( n + 1)!} a^{n+1} x^{n + 1} + \frac{n!}{n!} ba^{n}x^{n} + ... + \frac{n!}{n!} b^{n}ax \right] \\](http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/latexrender/pictures/7c/7c5e657f924e042b5eec0cc96ca58c4c.png "= \frac{1}{a} \left[ \frac{n!}{( n + 1)!} a^{n+1} x^{n + 1} + \frac{n!}{n!} ba^{n}x^{n} + ... + \frac{n!}{n!} b^{n}ax \right] \\")
![= \frac{1}{n + 1} \times \frac{1}{a} \left[ \frac{(n + 1)!}{(n + 1)!} a^{n+1} x^{n + 1} + \frac{(n + 1)!}{n!} ba^{n}x^{n} + ... + \frac{(n + 1)!}{n!} b^{n}ax \right] \\](http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/latexrender/pictures/8e/8e6f89f7482be188bd4cd5767a3017ab.png "= \frac{1}{n + 1} \times \frac{1}{a} \left[ \frac{(n + 1)!}{(n + 1)!} a^{n+1} x^{n + 1} + \frac{(n + 1)!}{n!} ba^{n}x^{n} + ... + \frac{(n + 1)!}{n!} b^{n}ax \right] \\")
![= \frac{1}{n + 1} \times \frac{1}{a} \left[ ax + b \right]^{n + 1}](http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/latexrender/pictures/d5/d5bebbf8406bebe4b5bbd3138b09a40c.png "= \frac{1}{n + 1} \times \frac{1}{a} \left[ ax + b \right]^{n + 1}")
Again, this can be extended to other functions:
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Example
1. Find the area under the curve 
between 
, and 
.
![\int _{0} ^{1} (2x + 3)^{4} \,dx = \left[ \frac{1}{2} \times \frac{1}{5} \times (2x + 3)^{5} \right] ^{1} _{0}](http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/latexrender/pictures/94/94f7baa948934071e859348889bd57b7.png "\int _{0} ^{1} (2x + 3)^{4} \,dx = \left[ \frac{1}{2} \times \frac{1}{5} \times (2x + 3)^{5} \right] ^{1} _{0}")
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Hence, the area is:
![\left[ \frac{1}{10} (2x + 3)^{5} \right] ^{1} _{0} = \frac{3125 - 243}{10} = \frac{ 2882 }{10} = 288.2](http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/latexrender/pictures/2b/2bb4784f5e3c56e5e22f02ccefbd6ac4.png "\left[ \frac{1}{10} (2x + 3)^{5} \right] ^{1} _{0} = \frac{3125 - 243}{10} = \frac{ 2882 }{10} = 288.2")
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Justifying the rule for differentiating 
The justification of the rules for the powers of functions does not apply for other functions of functions. We can consider the effects of the transformation from 
to 
.
There is a stretch parallel to the x-axis, scale factor 
, and then a translation in the negative x-direction of "b" units.
Quite obviously the gradient of the curve is not affected by translations, however stretches are different. This stretch causes the gradient to increase by a factor of "a". (In cases with negative "a", there might need to be an extra transformation, but this is easy to deal with, and produces the same result).
Also See
Read these other OCR Core 3 notes:
- Successive transformations
- Functions
- Exponential growth and decay
- Extending differentiation and integration
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