# Why is $\frac{d}{dx}\sin^{-1}\left(2x\sqrt{1-x^2}\right)=\frac2{\sqrt{1-x^2}}$ wrong?

In our text book's(Higher Math 1st Paper-by S U Ahmed) differentiation chapter there is a section about replacing $$x$$(inside inverse trigonometric function) with trigonometric functions. A example problem was $$\frac{d}{dx}\sin^{-1}\left(2x\sqrt{1-x^2}\right)$$ and the solution given is;

Let \begin{align*} y &=\sin^{-1}\left(2x\sqrt{1-x^2}\right)\\ &= \sin^{-1}\left(2\sin \theta \sqrt{1-\sin^2 \theta}\right)\\ &=\sin^{-1}\left(2\sin \theta \cos \theta \right)\\ &=\sin^{-1}(\sin 2\theta )\\ &=2\theta\\ &=2 \sin^{-1}x \end{align*} Now, \begin{align*} \frac{d}{dx}\sin^{-1}\left(2x\sqrt{1-x^2}\right)&=\frac{d}{dx}2 \sin^{-1}x\\ &=\dfrac{2}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \end{align*} But plotting two functions reveals the differentiation is not actually correct. If we differentiate by parts the answer would be $$\frac{2\left(-2x^{2}+1\right)}{\sqrt{1-4x^{2}\left(1-x^{2}\right)}\sqrt{1-x^{2}}}$$

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Now my question is why this solution is wrong?

My guess: May be this is because replacing $$x$$ with $$\sin \theta$$ changes the range of $$x$$ from $$(-\infty,\infty )$$ to $$[-1,1]$$ and may be it causes some issue.

• the range of $x$ is $[-0.7071,0.7071]$ as the domain of $\sin\alpha$ is $[-1,1]$ so $2x\sqrt{1-x^}=[-1,1]$ – Soyeb Jim Jun 13 '20 at 6:42