James Stewart-Calculus_ Early Transcendentals-Cengage Learning (2015)

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Section 3.11 Hyperbolic Functions 261
y
0
P(cosh t, sinh t)
x
Likewise, if t is any real number, then the point Pscosh t, sinh td lies on the right branch
of the hyperbola x 2 2 y 2 − 1 because cosh 2 t 2 sinh 2 t − 1 and cosh t > 1. This time, t
does not represent the measure of an angle. However, it turns out that t represents twice
the area of the shaded hyperbolic sector in Figure 7, just as in the trigonometric case t
represents twice the area of the shaded circular sector in Figure 6.
The derivatives of the hyperbolic functions are easily computed. For example,
FIGURE 7
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d
S
dx ssinh xd − d e x 2 e
D 2x
− e x 1 e 2x
dx 2 2
− cosh x
We list the differentiation formulas for the hyperbolic functions as Table 1. The remaining
proofs are left as exercises. Note the analogy with the differentiation formulas for
trigonometric functions, but beware that the signs are different in some cases.
1 Derivatives of Hyperbolic Functions
d
d
ssinh xd − cosh x
dx
d
d
scosh xd − sinh x
dx
d
dx stanh xd − sech2 x
scsch xd − 2csch x coth x
dx
ssech xd − 2sech x tanh x
dx
d
dx scoth xd − 2csch2 x
ExamplE 2 Any of these differentiation rules can be combined with the Chain Rule.
For instance,
d
dx scosh sx d − sinh sx ?
d
dx sx sinh sx
−
2sx
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Inverse Hyperbolic Functions
You can see from Figures 1 and 3 that sinh and tanh are one-to-one functions and so they
have inverse functions denoted by sinh 21 and tanh 21 . Figure 2 shows that cosh is not oneto-one,
but when restricted to the domain f0, `d it becomes one-to-one. The inverse
hyperbolic cosine function is defined as the inverse of this restricted function.
2 y − sinh 21 x &? sinh y − x
y − cosh 21 x &? cosh y − x and y > 0
y − tanh 21 x &? tanh y − x
The remaining inverse hyperbolic functions are defined similarly (see Exercise 28).
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