Given: Uniform distribution. $Y$ is a continuous random variable over $[0, 1]$, and $W=Y^2$. I want to find the pdf for $W$.
Here's what I have: $F_W (w) = P(W\leq w)= P(Y^2\leq w)=P(Y\leq w^{1/2})=F_Y(w^{1/2})$. Differentiating and using the chain rule gives the cdf $f_W(w)=f_Y(w^{1/2})/[2w^{1/2}]$.
How do I simplify this to $1/[2(w^{1/2})]$? In other words, why is $f_Y(w^{1/2})=1$ for any $w \in [0, 1] $?