CHAIN RULE It is used to calculate the partial derivatives of functions that depends on more than one variable F (X, Y) And in turn these depend on a third variable F (x (t), y (t)), this function is derived following the following structure dz/dt=(dz/dx) (dx/dt) + (dz/dy) (dy/dt) For a more general case of the chain rule we can analyze function W = F (x, y) where g (s, t) & h (s, t). This function would be dependent on 2 independent variables and therefore its first derivatives Partials of the first order would be given by: aw _ ow ow oy a at ax at ay ar” Following this diagram you can see the order that follows the rule of chain with 2 independent variables. dw _ dw ox + ow 0) as ax as dy as