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• Look at website on slide 5 for review on deriving area of a circle formula
Mean girls clip: the limit does not exist
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Introduction to Limits
Section 12.1
You’ll need a graphing calculator
What is a limit?What is a limit?Let’s discuss the Let’s discuss the derivation of the derivation of the area of a circlearea of a circle
(and circumference)(and circumference)
A Geometric Example
• Look at a polygon inscribed in a circle
As the number of sides of the polygon increases, the polygon is getting closer to becoming a circle.
• http://www.mathopenref.com/circleareaderive.html
If we refer to the polygon as an n-gon, where n is the number of sides we can make some
mathematical statements:
• As n gets larger, the n-gon gets closer to being a circle
• As n approaches infinity, the n-gon approaches the circle
• The limit of the n-gon, as n goes to infinity is the circle
lim( )n
n go circlen
The symbolic statement is:
The n-gon never really gets to be the circle, but it gets close - really, really close, and for all practical purposes, it may as well be the circle. That is what limits are all about!
FYI
Archimedes used this method WAY WAY before calculus to find the area of a
circle.
An Informal Description
If f(x) becomes arbitrarily close to a single number L as x approaches c from either side, the limit for f(x) as x approaches c, is L. This limit is written as
lim ( )x cf x L
Numerical Numerical ExamplesExamples
Numerical Example 1
Let’s look at a sequence whose nth term is given by:
What will the sequence look like?
½ , 2/3, ¾, 4/5, ….99/100,...99999/100000…
1
n
n
What is happening to the terms of the sequence?
Will they ever get to 1?
lim11
n
n
n
½ , 2/3, ¾, 4/5, ….99/100,….99999/100000…
Let’s look at the sequence whose nth term is given by
1, ½, 1/3, ¼, …..1/10000,....1/10000000000000…
As n is getting bigger, what are these terms approaching?
1n
Numerical Example 2
01
limn n
Graphical Graphical ExamplesExamples
Graphical Example 1
1( )f x
x
As x gets really, really big, what is happening to the height, f(x)?
01
lim xx
As x gets really, really small, what is happening to the height, f(x)?
Does the height, or f(x) ever get to 0?
01
limx x
Graphical Example 2
3( )f x x
As x gets really, really close to 2, what is happening to the height, f(x)?
3
2im 8lxx
Find7
lim ( )x
f x
Graphical Example 3
-4
-7
6
!6
4)(lim7
not
xfx
ln ln 2( )
2
xf x
x
Use your graphing calculator to graph the following:
Graphical Example 4
ln ln 2
( )2
xf x
x
Graphical Example 4
2lim ( )x
f x
Find
As x gets closer and closer to 2, what is the value of f(x) getting closer to?
TRACE: what is it approaching?TABLE:Set table to start at 1.997 with increments of .001 (TBLSET)
Does the value of f(x)
exist when x = 2?
ln ln 2( )
2
xf x
x
2lim ( )x
f x
2lim ( ) 0.5x
f x
ZOOM DecimalZOOM Decimal
Limits that Limits that Fail to ExistFail to Exist
What happens as x What happens as x approaches zero?approaches zero?
The limit as x approaches zero does not exist.
0
1limx
does not e tx
xis
Nonexistence Example 1: Behavior that Differs from the Right and Left
Nonexistence Example 2: Unbounded Behavior
Discuss the existence of the limit
20
1limx x
0
1limx
does not e tx
xis
20
1limx x
Nonexistence Example 3: Oscillating Behavior
0
1limsinx x
X 2/π 2/3π 2/5π 2/7π 2/9π 2/11π X 0
Sin(1/x) 1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 Limit does not exist
Discuss the existence of the limit
Put this into your calc
set table to start at -.003 with increments of .001
Common Types of Behavior Associated with Nonexistence of a
Limit
When can I use substitution to find the limit?
• When you have a polynomial or rational function with nonzero denominators
H Dub
• 12.1 #3-22, 23-47odd