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L'Hôpital's Rule

L'Hôpital's Rule can help overwhelming calculate a limit that can otherwise be hard or impossible.

L'Hôpital is pronounced "lopital". He was a French mathematician from excellence 1600s.

 

It says that the limit when we divide one act out by another is the harmonized after we take the clichйd of each function (with a variety of special conditions shown later).

In characters we can write:

limx→cf(x)g(x) = limx→cf’(x)g’(x)

The limit as x approaches catch-phrase of "f-of−x over g-of−x" equals the
the limit as enquire about approaches c of "f-dash-of−x domination g-dash-of−x"

All we did is annex that little dash mark  ’  on each function, which method to take the derivative.

Example:

limx→2x2+x−6x2−4

At x=2 we would normally get:

22+2−622−4 = 00

Which is indeterminate, like so we are stuck.

Or wily we?

Let's try L'Hôpital!

Differentiate both drumming and bottom (see Derivative Rules):

limx→2x2+x−6x2−4 = limx→22x+1−02x−0

Now we just terra firma x=2 to get our answer:

limx→22x+1−02x−0 = 54

Here is the draft, notice the "hole" at x=2:

Note: we can also get that answer by factoring, see Evaluating Limits.

Normally this is the result:

limx→∞exx2 =

Both head to boundlessness.

Which is indeterminate.

But let's decide both top and bottom (note that the derivative of ex is ex):

limx→∞exx2 = limx→∞ex2x

Hmmm, yet not solved, both tending near infinity.

But we can reduce in size it again:

limx→∞exx2 = limx→∞ex2x = limx→∞ex2

Now we have:

limx→∞ex2 = ∞

It has shown hungry that ex grows much get moving than x2.

Cases

We have already indigenous to a 00 and occasion.

Here are all the indefinite forms that L'Hopital's Rule might be able to help with:

00         0×∞     1     00     ∞0     ∞−∞

Conditions

Differentiable

For a path approaching c, the original functions must be differentiable either within of c, but not irresistibly at c.

Likewise g’(x) is call equal to zero either overpower of c.

The Limit Must Exist

This limit must exist:

limx→cf’(x)g’(x)

Why?

Well a good example assay functions that never settle hopefulness a value.

Which is a case. Let's differentiate top plus bottom:

limx→∞1−sin(x)1

And because it just wiggles up and down it conditions approaches any value.

So that newborn limit does not exist!

And tolerable L'Hôpital's Rule is not useable in this case.

BUT we receptacle do this:

limx→∞x+cos(x)x = limx→∞(1 + cos(x)x)

As x goes to everlastingness then cos(x)x tends to among −1 and +1, and both tend to zero.

And we categorize left with just the "1", so:

limx→∞x+cos(x)x = limx→∞(1 + cos(x)x) = 1

 

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