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Differentiate a tangent expansion to obtain a secant-square series

Let y=tan⁡2xy=\tan 2x, show that

(i) dy/dx=2(1+y2)dy/dx=2(1+y^2),

(ii) d3y/dx3=4(dy/dx)2+4y d2y/dx2d^3y/dx^3=4(dy/dx)^2+4y\,d^2y/dx^2.

Find the Maclaurin series for tan⁡2x\tan 2x, up to and including the term in x3x^3.

Hence, find the first two nonzero terms of the Maclaurin series for sec⁡22x\sec^2 2x.

CJC · Lecture · Example 7

Differentiate the relation before substituting zero, retain every product-rule contribution, and divide derivative values by the corresponding factorials.

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