除法定則

除法定則或商定則（英語：Quotient rule）是數學中關於兩個函數的商的導數的一個計算定則。

若已知兩個可導函數g,h及其導數g',h'，且h(x)≠0，則它們的商

$f(x)={\frac {g(x)}{h(x)}}$

的導數為：

$f'(x)={\frac {g'(x)h(x)-g(x)h'(x)}{[h(x)]^{2}}}$

例子

${\frac {4x-2}{x^{2}+1}}$的導數為：

${\frac {d}{dx}}\left({\frac {4x-2}{x^{2}+1}}\right)$	$={\frac {(x^{2}+1)(4)-(4x-2)(2x)}{(x^{2}+1)^{2}}}$
	$={\frac {(4x^{2}+4)-(8x^{2}-4x)}{(x^{2}+1)^{2}}}$
	$={\frac {-4x^{2}+4x+4}{(x^{2}+1)^{2}}}$

$f(x)={\frac {2x^{2}}{x^{3}}}$的導數為：

$f'(x)\,$	$={\frac {\left(4x\cdot x^{3}\right)-\left(2x^{2}\cdot 3x^{2}\right)}{\left(x^{3}\right)^{2}}}$
	$={\frac {4x^{4}-6x^{4}}{x^{6}}}$
	$={\frac {-2x^{4}}{x^{6}}}$
	$=-{\frac {2}{x^{2}}}$

證明

從牛頓差商推出

設$f(x)={\tfrac {g(x)}{h(x)}}$，$h(x)\neq 0$，且$g$和$h$均可導。

$f'(x)=\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}{\frac {f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)}{\Delta x}}=\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}{\frac {{\frac {g(x+\Delta x)}{h(x+\Delta x)}}-{\frac {g(x)}{h(x)}}}{\Delta x}}$

$=\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}{\frac {1}{\Delta x}}\cdot {\frac {g(x+\Delta x)h(x)-g(x)h(x+\Delta x)}{h(x)h(x+\Delta x)}}$

$=\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}{\frac {1}{\Delta x}}\cdot {\frac {(g(x+\Delta x)h(x)-g(x)h(x))-(g(x)h(x+\Delta x)-g(x)h(x))}{h(x)h(x+\Delta x)}}$

$=\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}{\frac {1}{\Delta x}}\cdot {\frac {h(x)(g(x+\Delta x)-g(x))-g(x)(h(x+\Delta x)-h(x))}{h(x)h(x+\Delta x)}}$

$=\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}{\frac {{\frac {g(x+\Delta x)-g(x)}{\Delta x}}h(x)-g(x){\frac {h(x+\Delta x)-h(x)}{\Delta x}}}{h(x)h(x+\Delta x)}}$

$={\frac {\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}\left({\frac {g(x+\Delta x)-g(x)}{\Delta x}}\right)h(x)-g(x)\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}\left({\frac {h(x+\Delta x)-h(x)}{\Delta x}}\right)}{h(x)h(\lim _{\Delta x\to 0}(x+\Delta x))}}$

$={\frac {g'(x)h(x)-g(x)h'(x)}{[h(x)]^{2}}}$

從乘積法則推出

假設$f(x)={\frac {g(x)}{h(x)}}$。

那麼$g(x)=f(x)h(x){\mbox{ }}\,$

$g'(x)=f'(x)h(x)+f(x)h'(x){\mbox{ }}\,$

$f'(x)={\frac {g'(x)-f(x)h'(x)}{h(x)}}={\frac {g'(x)-{\frac {g(x)}{h(x)}}\cdot h'(x)}{h(x)}}$

$f'(x)={\frac {g'(x)h(x)-g(x)h'(x)}{\left(h(x)\right)^{2}}}$

從複合函數求導法則推出

考慮恆等式，v≠0

${\frac {u}{v}}\;=\;{\frac {1}{4}}\left[\left(u+{\frac {1}{v}}\right)^{2}-\;\left(u-{\frac {1}{v}}\right)^{2}\right]$

那麼：

${\frac {d\left({\frac {u}{v}}\right)}{dx}}\;=\;{\frac {1}{4}}{\frac {d}{dx}}\left[\left(u+{\frac {1}{v}}\right)^{2}-\;\left(u-{\frac {1}{v}}\right)^{2}\right]$

於是：

${\frac {d\left({\frac {u}{v}}\right)}{dx}}\;=\;{\frac {1}{4}}\left[2\left(u+{\frac {1}{v}}\right)\left({\frac {du}{dx}}-{\frac {dv}{v^{2}dx}}\right)-\;2\left(u-{\frac {1}{v}}\right)\left({\frac {du}{dx}}+{\frac {dv}{v^{2}dx}}\right)\right]$

展開，得：

${\frac {d\left({\frac {u}{v}}\right)}{dx}}\;=\;{\frac {1}{4}}\left[{\frac {4}{v}}{\frac {du}{dx}}-{\frac {4u}{v^{2}}}{\frac {dv}{dx}}\right]$

最後，把分子和分母同除以4，便得：

${\frac {d\left({\frac {u}{v}}\right)}{dx}}\;=\;{\frac {\left[v{\frac {du}{dx}}-u{\frac {dv}{dx}}\right]}{v^{2}}}$

參見

• 乘法定則
• 鏈式法則