Question
Find the derivative of $(\sin x + \cos x)$ from first principle.

Answer

We have, $f(x)=\sin x+\cos x$
By using first principle of derivative
$f^{\prime}(x)=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}$
$\therefore f^{\prime}(x)=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{\sin (x+h)+\cos (x+h)-\sin x-\cos x}{h}$
$=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{[\sin x \cdot \cos h+\cos x \cdot \sin h+\cos x \cdot \cos h-\sin x \cdot \sin h-\sin x-\cos x]}{h}$
$(\because \sin (x+y)=\sin x \cos y+\cos x \sin y$ and $\cos (x+y)=\cos x \cos y-\sin x \sin y)$
$=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{\sin h(\cos x-\sin x)+\sin x(\cos h-1)+\cos x(\cos h-1)}{h}$
$=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{\sin h}{h}(\cos x-\sin x)+\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{\sin x(\cos h-1)}{h}+\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{\cos x(\cos h-1)}{h}$
$=1 \cdot(\cos x-\sin x)+\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \sin x\left[\frac{-(1-\cos h)}{h}\right]+\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \cos x\left[\frac{-(1-\cos h)}{h}\right]\left[\because \lim _{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{\sin x}{x}=1\right]$
$=(\cos x-\sin x)-\sin x \cdot \lim _{h \rightarrow 0}\left(\frac{1-\cos h}{h}\right)-\cos x \cdot \lim _{h \rightarrow 0}\left(\frac{1-\cos h}{h}\right)$
$=(\cos x-\sin x)-\sin x \cdot \lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{2 \sin ^2 \frac{h}{2}}{h \times \frac{h}{4}} \times \frac{h}{4}-\cos x \cdot \lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{2 \sin ^2 \frac{h}{2}}{h \times \frac{h}{4}} \times \frac{h}{4}$
$=(\cos x-\sin x)-\sin x \cdot 2 \cdot \frac{1}{4} \lim _{\frac{h}{2} \rightarrow 0}\left(\frac{\sin \frac{h}{2}}{\frac{h}{2}}\right)^2 \times h-\cos x \cdot 2 \cdot \frac{1}{4} \lim _{\frac{h}{2} \rightarrow 0}\left(\frac{\sin \frac{h}{2}}{\frac{h}{2}}\right)^2 h$
$=(\cos x-\sin x)-\frac{1}{2} \cdot \sin x \cdot(1) \times 0-\cos x \cdot \frac{1}{2} \cdot(1) \times 0\left[\because \lim _{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{\sin x}{x}=1\right]$
$= (\cos x - \sin x) - 0 - 0$
$= \cos x - \sin x$

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