$$\begin{aligned} \text{Let}\quad y & =2^{\cos ^2 x} \\ \therefore\quad \log y & =\log 2^{\cos ^2 x}=\cos ^2 x \cdot \log 2 \end{aligned}$$

On differentiating w.r.t. $x$, we get

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{d}{d y} \log y \cdot \frac{d y}{d x} & =\frac{d}{d x} \log 2 \cdot \cos ^2 x \\ \Rightarrow \quad \frac{1}{y} \cdot \frac{d y}{d x} & =\log 2 \frac{d}{d x}(\cos x)^2 \\ \Rightarrow \quad \frac{1}{y} \cdot \frac{d y}{d x} & =\log 2 \cdot[2 \cos x] \cdot \frac{d}{d x} \cos x \\ & =\log 2 \cdot 2 \cos x \cdot(-\sin x) \\ & =\log 2 \cdot[-(\sin 2 x)] \\ \therefore \quad \frac{d y}{d x} & =-y \cdot \log 2(\sin 2 x) \\ & =-2^{\cos ^2 x} \cdot \log 2(\sin 2 x) \end{aligned}$$

Let $$y=\frac{8^x}{x^8} \Rightarrow \log y=\log \frac{8^x}{x^8}$$

$$\begin{array}{ll} \Rightarrow & \frac{d}{d y} \log y \cdot \frac{d y}{d x}=\frac{d}{d x}\left[\log 8^x-\log x^8\right] \\ \Rightarrow & \frac{1}{y} \cdot \frac{d y}{d x}=\frac{d}{d x}[x \cdot \log 8-8 \cdot \log x] \end{array}$$

On differentiating w.r.t. $x$, we get

$$\begin{aligned} & \frac{1}{y} \cdot \frac{d y}{d x} =\log 8 \cdot 1-8 \cdot \frac{1}{x} \\ \Rightarrow \quad & \frac{1}{y} \cdot \frac{d y}{d x} =\log 8-\frac{8}{x} \\ \therefore \quad & \frac{d y}{d x} =y\left(\log 8-\frac{8}{x}\right)=\frac{8^x}{x^8}\left(\log 8-\frac{8}{x}\right) \end{aligned} $$

$$\begin{aligned} \text { Let } \quad & =\log \left(x+\sqrt{x^2+a}\right) \\ \therefore \quad \frac{d y}{d x} & =\frac{d}{d x} \log \left(x+\sqrt{x^2+a}\right) \\ & =\frac{1}{\left(x+\sqrt{x^2+a}\right)} \cdot \frac{d}{d x}\left[x+\sqrt{x^2+a}\right] \\ & =\frac{1}{\left(x+\sqrt{x^2+a}\right)}\left[1+\frac{1}{2}\left(x^2+a\right)^{-1 / 2} \cdot 2 x\right] \\ & =\frac{1}{\left(x+\sqrt{x^2+a}\right)} \cdot\left(1+\frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2+a}}\right) \\ & =\frac{\left(\sqrt{x^2+a}+x\right)}{\left(x+\sqrt{x^2+a}\right)\left(\sqrt{x^2+a}\right)}=\frac{1}{\left(\sqrt{x^2+a}\right)} \end{aligned}$$

$$\begin{aligned} & \begin{aligned} \text { Let } \quad & y=\log \left[\log \left(\log x^5\right)\right] \\ &\begin{aligned} \therefore\quad \frac{d y}{d x} & =\frac{d}{d x}\left[\log \left(\log \log x^5\right)\right] \\ & =\frac{1}{\log \log x^5} \cdot \frac{d}{d x}\left(\log \cdot \log x^5\right) \\ & =\frac{1}{\log \log x^5} \cdot\left(\frac{1}{\log x^5}\right) \cdot \frac{d}{d x} \log x^5 \\ & =\frac{1}{\log \log x^5} \cdot \frac{1}{\log x^5} \cdot \frac{d}{d x}(5 \log x)=\frac{5}{x \cdot \log \left(\log x^5\right) \cdot \log \left(x^5\right)} \end{aligned} \end{aligned} \begin{array}{l} \end{array} \quad \begin{aligned} \\ \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$

Let $$y=\sin \sqrt{x}+(\cos \sqrt{x})^2$$

$$\begin{aligned} \therefore \quad \frac{d y}{d x} & =\frac{d}{d x} \sin \left(x^{1 / 2}\right)+\frac{d}{d x}\left[\cos \left(x^{1 / 2}\right)\right]^2 \\ & =\cos x^{1 / 2} \cdot \frac{d}{d x} x^{1 / 2}+2 \cos \left(x^{1 / 2}\right) \frac{d}{d x}\left[\cos \left(x^{1 / 2}\right)\right] \\ & =\cos \left(x^{1 / 2}\right) \frac{1}{2} x^{-1 / 2}+2 \cdot \cos \left(x^{1 / 2}\right) \cdot\left[-\sin \left(x^{1 / 2}\right) \cdot \frac{d}{d x} x^{1 / 2}\right] \\ & =\cos \sqrt{x} \cdot \frac{1}{2 \sqrt{x}}\left[-2 \cos \left(x^{1 / 2}\right)\right] \cdot \sin x^{1 / 2} \cdot \frac{1}{2 \sqrt{x}} \\ & =\frac{1}{2 \sqrt{x}}[\cos (\sqrt{x})-\sin (2 \sqrt{x})] \end{aligned}$$