Understanding Limits and L'Hospital's Rule

We learned about limits earlier in this series. We know what they represent, and we know how to evaluate them. Then we found that we don't need them that much, because we have better methods for differentiating functions than all that business with tangent lines and limits. But limits still have applications, and we can use them to find out the value of a function at a certain point when we can't figure this out from the function itself. How? With L'Hospital's rule!
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    @ConceptualCalculus4 жыл бұрын

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    @sirxavior15835 жыл бұрын

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    @Dharmendra_k_verma Жыл бұрын

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    @awaysabdiwahid3572 Жыл бұрын

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    @Pawn2King_12 жыл бұрын

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    @KgH0sTX Жыл бұрын

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    @briancruz35515 жыл бұрын

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    @gaiagray3583 Жыл бұрын

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    @lonandon2 жыл бұрын

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    @kennetheiman86515 жыл бұрын

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  • @damien20ntakirutimana96
    @damien20ntakirutimana96 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Professor Dave, please may you talk about the origin and the statement of L'Hospital rule.

  • @adisiebiraramenale8204
    @adisiebiraramenale82048 ай бұрын

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    @anirudh18355 жыл бұрын

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    @_A__SaketKumar4 жыл бұрын

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  • @user-ex4yo5uw7x
    @user-ex4yo5uw7x5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the online lecture man! My teacher at school is so hopeless, she couldn't taught L'Hospital because there's no L'Hospital explanation on textbooks

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    @Lostwolf16

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol, that would have sucked bad. I did had good lecture and note but the teacher pulled Eminem on us so hard to understand the lyrics

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    @vunguyen2246

    5 жыл бұрын

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    @JinkunYan2 ай бұрын

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    @JinkunYan

    2 ай бұрын

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    @bibsp35562 жыл бұрын

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    @curtpiazza16882 жыл бұрын

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    @astha_yadav2 жыл бұрын

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    @johnhartney75764 жыл бұрын

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    @sweatypineapple44112 ай бұрын

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    @_A__SaketKumar4 жыл бұрын

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  • @aang7505
    @aang75055 жыл бұрын

    Could you go over indeterminate products please?

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    @anwarshifaw74815 жыл бұрын

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    @weakling53586 жыл бұрын

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    @tse278

    5 жыл бұрын

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    @Jason-rd1ev

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @raahimkhan9552 Жыл бұрын

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    @shivakrishna53344 жыл бұрын

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  • @nychan2939
    @nychan29396 ай бұрын

    Good. But is it logical to use L'Hopital's rule to find lim sin (x)/x, as we must know the limit before we differentiate sin(x)? There're so many similar examples.

  • @vasilispesmatzoglou3020
    @vasilispesmatzoglou3020 Жыл бұрын

    So we can't use the rule for the infinity over (infinity - infinity) ? Or we have to make this form infinity over infinity and the solve by L'Hospital?

  • @LUXURYLIFESTYLECLIPS77
    @LUXURYLIFESTYLECLIPS773 жыл бұрын

    Thank 🥰

  • @shaidasabr5272
    @shaidasabr52727 ай бұрын

    what about when x approache to zero for absolute value of x over x does the rule work?!

  • @NilEoe
    @NilEoeАй бұрын

    I don't understand the last exercise (ln x/x^2): When deriving once, I get (1/x)/2x. However, the 1/x then gets derived to - 1/x^2, and I don't see where the minus sign went in the answer? Altough I get that your answer must be right since the function is curving up and not down and so it makes sense that the second derivative is positive when x -> infinity. Can anyone explain?

  • @davenewman8744
    @davenewman87449 ай бұрын

    Question regarding the limit of x(ln x) = 0, the graph of that function shows there is no limit from the left side, which is why you approached the limit from the right side, but I thought the rule of limits state that a limit can only exist if the limit exists from both sides? There is the limit of peace-wise functions but that still requires the limit of both functions to exist from both sides. I am just assuming there is some limit rule I am missing. Would you be so kind as to elaborate on this?

  • @syedaryahana824
    @syedaryahana8244 жыл бұрын

    I am 10 years old and finish the whole calculus course smart ha

  • @zzz9899

    @zzz9899

    2 жыл бұрын

    पागल हो क्या

  • @wrathcs
    @wrathcs3 жыл бұрын

    what if g(x)=1 for example and we apply this, we get f'(x)/0 if defined then it's infinity. just guessing not sure, HELP

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    @alexwu697006 жыл бұрын

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    @tse278

    5 жыл бұрын

    very bad

  • @whitefeather8387
    @whitefeather83876 ай бұрын

    Professor thank u, From 🇮🇳 India😢

  • @statxs
    @statxs Жыл бұрын

    this channel def the best at explaining shit

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    @user-ok8mn7qy6y3 ай бұрын

    Great

  • @mark_tilltill6664
    @mark_tilltill66644 жыл бұрын

    Lim (x->inf, (x+cos(x))/x ) is indeterminate, but L'hopital's rule fails.

  • @reynaldowify
    @reynaldowify4 жыл бұрын

    Hi. Have seen recently an MIT video which shows a failure in L ´Hospital rule. Lim for x tending to infinite from (x + cos x) / x Thanks I admire your videos

  • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

    @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you mean (x + sin x) / x? (x + cos x) / x does not apply, because it does not produce an indeterminate form. L'Hopital's rule didn't fail. The failure was attempting to use it when it doesn't apply.

  • @HannahLisomeoneunique
    @HannahLisomeoneunique3 жыл бұрын

    For the question 1 at the end, why does limx->∞ 2x-9/6x+7 = limx->∞ 2/6 ? what happened to the -9 and +7 as I got to the part where i differentiate n wasnt sure what to do next. thank you for the great vid anyways

  • @designingworld6611

    @designingworld6611

    2 жыл бұрын

    He took the derivative again derivative of 2x-9/6x+7 = 2/6

  • @marpin6162
    @marpin61623 жыл бұрын

    You can't use L'Hopital's rule prove that lim (sin(x)/x) as x-->0 = 1. That's a circular argument because in order to prove that the derivative of sin(x) is cos(x) you need to know what value is lim (sin(x)/x) as x-->0.

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    3 жыл бұрын

    What? Check out my tutorial on derivatives of trigonometric functions. You just plot the rate of change of sine and you get cosine. It couldn't be simpler.

  • @marpin6162

    @marpin6162

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ProfessorDaveExplains I was trying to say that we can't do a formal demonstration of the derivative of sin(x) using l'Hopital's rule. I didn't mean you did it on this presentation. btw, nice video and training exercices

  • @sadrevolution
    @sadrevolution3 жыл бұрын

    I thought this was going to show why L'Hopital's rule works (graphically? I don't know).

  • @VijfMiljard
    @VijfMiljard4 жыл бұрын

    What I don't get is this: in the first example of sin x/x, the limit here is the definition of the derivative of sin x at x=0. Then in the same line he writes down cos x as the derivative of sin x which he's not supposed to know as that is exactly the thing he is calculating. Isn't he making justified assumptions?

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    4 жыл бұрын

    look earlier in the calculus playlist for a tutorial on finding the derivatives of trigonometric functions, it's quite well derived

  • @BCdesu
    @BCdesu6 жыл бұрын

    Which hospital is that?

  • @celesteadeanes4478

    @celesteadeanes4478

    5 жыл бұрын

    It’s the one in France

  • @VeritasEtAequitas

    @VeritasEtAequitas

    4 жыл бұрын

    The one you go to when you think about this too much and get an aneurysm

  • @johnychinese
    @johnychinese2 жыл бұрын

    Hey Dave, I'm a bit confused Why didn't you use the quotient rule to solve for limx->0 (e^x/x^3) Thank you, hope to hear from you soon

  • @SamLuv07

    @SamLuv07

    Жыл бұрын

    Rule applies only for when you take derivatives of quotients not for limits. 💜

  • @topiado2073
    @topiado20735 жыл бұрын

    Sir if it is 0/infinity or infinity/zero,,would we apply the L.rule?

  • @cristiansantos5070

    @cristiansantos5070

    5 жыл бұрын

    Topi Ado no sir

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    @topiado2073

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@cristiansantos5070 girl#me

  • @cristiansantos5070

    @cristiansantos5070

    5 жыл бұрын

    Topi Ado sorry!

  • @justabunga1

    @justabunga1

    4 жыл бұрын

    0/infinity and infinity/0 will yield the limit to be 0 and infinity. An example of these function would be y=ln(x)/x and y=x/ln(x) as x goes to 0 from the right respectively. The limit would go to -infinity and 0.

  • @tGoldenPhoenix
    @tGoldenPhoenix2 жыл бұрын

    Done.

  • @mramadevi5014
    @mramadevi50145 жыл бұрын

    How to define a limit using real life examples

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    5 жыл бұрын

    there are no real life examples! this is mathematics.

  • @gokulabisheak3653

    @gokulabisheak3653

    5 жыл бұрын

    There is no real life use, it's pure mathematics, but limits are the answer we get when we substitute the closest value to the variable, when we won't get a definete value when we substitute the exact variable.

  • @brittniep9219

    @brittniep9219

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's important but really often more background for integrals and derivatives which 100% have real-world applications :)

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    @flameon81854 жыл бұрын

    just came to know how to pronounce this word !!

  • @pubgfuplaying4500
    @pubgfuplaying45002 ай бұрын

    i think the second comprehansion questoin is wrong because its ans is not maching mine i have done several times

  • @ashoknadan3864
    @ashoknadan38646 жыл бұрын

    good sir.

  • @samriddhbhardwaj3913
    @samriddhbhardwaj39132 ай бұрын

    4:28 I guess here L'hopital rule will also give correct answer .

  • @Birparaboyz
    @Birparaboyz6 күн бұрын

    Bro casually solves infinity 🎉

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    @ygreaterr4 жыл бұрын

    i love infinity

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    @ericpham79742 жыл бұрын

    How computer and human solve the no solution problem?

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    @aselim20. Жыл бұрын

    I wrote it.

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    @luljhul17582 жыл бұрын

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  • @joannali6720
    @joannali67203 жыл бұрын

    I dont know why sinx derivative to cosx

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    3 жыл бұрын

    Check out my tutorial on derivatives of trig functions, I derive them graphically.

  • @zzz9899
    @zzz98992 жыл бұрын

    I am in class 11 i am from india It is not in our syllabus but we use this as a short cut in our syllabus 😎

  • @Thedrunkguy1
    @Thedrunkguy13 ай бұрын

    I still don't get it

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    @ssaafmoon1998

    Ай бұрын

    I got it after 6th time 🥹

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    @ArnavGarg-rl6qh

    Ай бұрын

    It ain't that hard by solving problems you will understand is better. 😊

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    @masukmiah50154 жыл бұрын

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    @arcaneinane2 жыл бұрын

    i

  • @mikberegov
    @mikberegov6 жыл бұрын

    I must notice that he's not L'Hospital

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I'm Dave. I thought I made that clear in my intro!

  • @aAlbertEinstein
    @aAlbertEinstein4 ай бұрын

    l'hospital rule

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    @lubodimoff9176 Жыл бұрын

    Why do I pay for university?

  • @SAM-ph6yg
    @SAM-ph6yg3 ай бұрын

    Thank you Jesus

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    @MarianaLafoskayl

    2 ай бұрын

    Bro wtf💀

  • @michaelespeland
    @michaelespeland3 жыл бұрын

    L'Hospital? Isn't it spelled L'Hopital?

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    3 жыл бұрын

    Both are correct actually.

  • @user-uh9bo2im1h
    @user-uh9bo2im1h8 ай бұрын

    2:15 Actually you can’t use L’Hop here

  • @Ghostslicer442

    @Ghostslicer442

    4 ай бұрын

    how so?

  • @JinkunYan

    @JinkunYan

    2 ай бұрын

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    @wildlifeadventuregirl4 жыл бұрын

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  • @binyammamo707
    @binyammamo7072 жыл бұрын

    I have confusion: You said: 0*(infinity) = indeterminate (but 0*any number=0 [right?]) and again (infinity)^0 = indeterminate (but anything raised to zero equals 1, right?) and again 1^(infinity) = indeterminate (but one raised to any number equals 1, right?) So what do you mean by that. In other words what kind of expressions do you call INDETERMINATE?

  • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

    @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

    Жыл бұрын

    No. Infinity is not a number, so rules of arithmetic do not apply.