Calculus I

Lession 13: Indeterminate Forms and L'Hospital's Rule

(Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Chanh Tu, DUT)

1.1. Examples: Find the following limits by any methods you know
Exam1:

a) b) Find

Exam2

Exam3

Exam 4

a) b)

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1.2. L'Hospital's Rule

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1.3. Remarks
Note 1

quotient of their derivatives, provided that the given conditions are satisfied.
It is especially important to verify the conditions regarding the limits of and before using

Exam

Note 2

Note 3
For the special case in which , and are continuous, and , it is
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1.4. Exams
Exam4: Find the limits by using L'Hopistal Rule

a) b)

c) d)
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Exam5

Calculate Generalize the result!

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Exam6
Calculate Generalize the result!

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Exam7
Calculate

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2. Indeterminate Forms
2.1. Indeterminate Products
If and (or ), then it is called an indeterminate form
of type

Note that, if writing the product as

then this converts the given limit into an indeterminate form of type or so that we can use

Exam 8
Calculate

2.2. Indeterminate Differences

If and , then the limit is called an indeterminate
form of type
Exam 9
Compute

Sol

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2.3. Indeterminate Powers

We are lead to the indeterminate product , which is of type
2.4. Exam
Calculate

Sol Exam 10
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Sol Exam 11

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HW
Sec. 4.4
I.1-4
II. 5-30 al 10; 31-62 al. 10; 43-7; 63-64 al 1; 65-66 al. 1;
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