Understanding Limits and L'Hospital's Rule

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  • @ConceptualCalculus
    @ConceptualCalculus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    I love you, Professor Dave. I was teaching face-to-face classes with pencil-and-paper homework, just like back in the day, when suddenly, due to Covid-19, my classes are all online. I can make reasonably good math instructional videos, but not fast enough to keep up with four different courses in real time. I've been wandering TH-cam looking for good math videos to fit my learning objectives. This one is great. Thank you. --Professor Lisa.

  • @rajendramisir3530
    @rajendramisir3530 6 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    A must watch Calculus series for all who are studying this subject. Clear presentation that includes organized content in a textbook format with intelligent, concise and step by step explanation of concepts and worked out examples. I enjoy learning from these videos. Thanks.

  • @emielevenepoel9761
    @emielevenepoel9761 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Your channel is absolutely amazing! Thank you for helping students everywhere!

  • @sirxavior1583
    @sirxavior1583 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Great video. You taught the rule in a way that saved me from going to the Hospital, lol.

  • @thamannaak1643
    @thamannaak1643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks a lot for your wonderful explanation..Now I am confident with this concept. 🇮🇳

  • @frankhong6313
    @frankhong6313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Learning calculus for free is so enjoyable. Thanks Prof Dave!

  • @フェフ
    @フェフ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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

    • @Lostwolf16
      @Lostwolf16 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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

    • @vunguyen2246
      @vunguyen2246 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Lostwolf16 :')

  • @shenanigun5576
    @shenanigun5576 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks Dave!

  • @aarush2474
    @aarush2474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This rule is just so neat!

  • @awaysabdiwahid3572
    @awaysabdiwahid3572 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you professor Dave i got these lecture after 4 years at the day you uploaded and helped me to understand l'hopital's rule
    thank you again

  • @samsunnahar9175
    @samsunnahar9175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks a lot for organizable, understandable and excellent explanation!!

  • @KgH0sTX
    @KgH0sTX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Finally understood lopital rule after HOURS. Thank you professor!

  • @Kiky_MedPhysicist
    @Kiky_MedPhysicist 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you sir for your dedication and for making this free! 🙏

  • @anirudh1835
    @anirudh1835 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks love from India!!

  • @noon1644
    @noon1644 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thx for everything ♥️

  • @bibsp3556
    @bibsp3556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i love when some other smarty has done the maths to explain something that makes sense logically. I remember working towards this in a calc class back as a group in the day, before we worked on this.

  • @sophiiehehe
    @sophiiehehe หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so mcuh for the explaination! Was very easy to follow along and understand L'Hospital's rules

  • @pareshsings3759
    @pareshsings3759 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your all videos are so informative n easy to understand.n tomorrow is my exam 😅.
    Writing this bcz these videos helped me a lot.love from india❤️.

  • @NeoUnfazed
    @NeoUnfazed 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    no words can describe how grateful I am prof ❤

  • @damien20ntakirutimana96
    @damien20ntakirutimana96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @adisiebiraramenale8204
    @adisiebiraramenale8204 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks so mach
    Thi is an important
    Concept in
    Learning
    Limit❤

  • @_A__SaketKumar
    @_A__SaketKumar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    many many thanks

  • @Dharmendra_k_verma
    @Dharmendra_k_verma 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I m from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳watching your lecture your videos very simply explain me the topic thank you so much sir for your efforts 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @heeeei42
    @heeeei42 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this was so helpful!

  • @ilove8765
    @ilove8765 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At 5:42 , there is an error. If you express -x² to its reciprocal, you should get -1/x².
    So the solution should look like:
    (1/x) × (-1/x²) = -1/x³
    If you differentiate this three times, you should arrive at an answer of 0/6, which is coincidentally also 0

  • @aminnima6145
    @aminnima6145 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @kimutaiKevin
    @kimutaiKevin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your explanation is very nice professor ☺️

  • @indusaranisalgimhana780
    @indusaranisalgimhana780 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you sir...!! Its easy to understand properly

  • @afan4798
    @afan4798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    From your lecture I got to know many things. ❤

  • @BalajiS-hs7mz
    @BalajiS-hs7mz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    No one can teach as like u sir😁😀😂😀👍👌

  • @jrok172
    @jrok172 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This man is a hero!

  • @weakling5358
    @weakling5358 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank youuu 🤗🤗

    • @tse278
      @tse278 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      stupid girl

    • @Jason-rd1ev
      @Jason-rd1ev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tse278 bruh moment 69420

  • @djdanzo206
    @djdanzo206 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i've definitely subscribed , it helps me more than it helps you for sure!!!

  • @gaiagray3583
    @gaiagray3583 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Perfect teaching totally understood

  • @JinkunYan
    @JinkunYan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I finally get why asymptote of the range of function is that!!!!

    • @JinkunYan
      @JinkunYan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am so happppppppppppyyyyy!!!!!!!!!

  • @_A__SaketKumar
    @_A__SaketKumar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thanks

  • @nicholasachuz8329
    @nicholasachuz8329 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love you professor, you always get me out of trouble, hope I meet you one day to thank you f2f

  • @kennetheiman8651
    @kennetheiman8651 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank You! It was great!

  • @mathematicieenockdybala203
    @mathematicieenockdybala203 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're the great sir dave

  • @nutandhakal5289
    @nutandhakal5289 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is absolutely awesome thanks man

  • @briancruz3551
    @briancruz3551 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thankyou so much bro!

  • @doyoarero5599
    @doyoarero5599 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks sir your my hero

  • @viviandelossantos6085
    @viviandelossantos6085 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you!💜

  • @decylenmilloneslantawan4295
    @decylenmilloneslantawan4295 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you sir

  • @nipunfernando6689
    @nipunfernando6689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    @0:25 By sandwich theorem isn't it =1

  • @leraheva8485
    @leraheva8485 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent

  • @ElenaHudson01
    @ElenaHudson01 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Dave!
    I believe we cannot use L’Hôpitals rule for sin(theta)/theta, this is because we need to know the derivative of this in order to use l’hopital’s, thus we cannot use l’hopitals for us to find the derivative… Am I right? How can we calculate this derivatives without using L’Hôpital’s rule then?
    Great video!

  • @edwardchhangte3899
    @edwardchhangte3899 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You save me from Hospital

  • @guuguu7559
    @guuguu7559 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks again sir

  • @curtpiazza1688
    @curtpiazza1688 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! I finally get it!!!

  • @aang7505
    @aang7505 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Could you go over indeterminate products please?

  • @shivakrishna5334
    @shivakrishna5334 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Super sir

  • @marpin6162
    @marpin6162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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

  • @sachingupta-um8ko
    @sachingupta-um8ko 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank u sir!

  • @edwardcorrales5110
    @edwardcorrales5110 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sorry Prof Dave but I evaluate your limit at 7:45 and my calculator says "Domain error" because Ln(0) gives domain error. How do you solve this? Thanks in advance.

    • @chourouk-gr9qg
      @chourouk-gr9qg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same question

    • @chourouk-gr9qg
      @chourouk-gr9qg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh got it now
      Because it's 0+

  • @nychan2939
    @nychan2939 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @astha_yadav
    @astha_yadav 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Many many thanks, sir !!
    I am gonna recommend this playlist to all the suffering 11th grade friends i have xD

  • @johnhartney7576
    @johnhartney7576 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing

  • @faridaakaman
    @faridaakaman หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a question: How can we know which function we are inverting and placing under the other? Please answer me

  • @sweatypineapple4411
    @sweatypineapple4411 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    love you dave

  • @raahimkhan9552
    @raahimkhan9552 ปีที่แล้ว

    love you sir

  • @whitefeather8387
    @whitefeather8387 ปีที่แล้ว

    Professor thank u, From 🇮🇳 India😢

  • @BCdesu
    @BCdesu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Which hospital is that?

    • @celesteadeanes4478
      @celesteadeanes4478 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It’s the one in France

    • @VndNvwYvvSvv
      @VndNvwYvvSvv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @maysa7491
    @maysa7491 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    YOU SAVED ME

  • @davenewman8744
    @davenewman8744 ปีที่แล้ว

    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?

  • @VijfMiljard
    @VijfMiljard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @syedaryahana824
    @syedaryahana824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @zzz9899
      @zzz9899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      पागल हो क्या

  • @luljhul1758
    @luljhul1758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you jesus

  • @LUXURYLIFESTYLECLIPS77
    @LUXURYLIFESTYLECLIPS77 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank 🥰

  • @vasilispesmatzoglou3020
    @vasilispesmatzoglou3020 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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?

  • @anwarshifaw7481
    @anwarshifaw7481 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i loved it

  • @topiado2073
    @topiado2073 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @cristiansantos5070
      @cristiansantos5070 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Topi Ado no sir

    • @topiado2073
      @topiado2073 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cristiansantos5070 girl#me

    • @cristiansantos5070
      @cristiansantos5070 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Topi Ado sorry!

    • @justabunga1
      @justabunga1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @NilEoe
    @NilEoe 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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?

  • @shaidasabr5272
    @shaidasabr5272 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @alexwu69700
    @alexwu69700 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You're awesome

    • @tse278
      @tse278 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      very bad

  • @johnychinese
    @johnychinese 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @tGoldenPhoenix
    @tGoldenPhoenix 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Done.

  • @statxs
    @statxs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this channel def the best at explaining shit

  • @ElvisAboagye-s7p
    @ElvisAboagye-s7p 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great

  • @SAM-ph6yg
    @SAM-ph6yg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you Jesus

  • @HannahLisomeoneunique
    @HannahLisomeoneunique 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @samriddhbhardwaj3913
    @samriddhbhardwaj3913 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Thedrunkguy1
    @Thedrunkguy1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I still don't get it

    • @ssaafmoon1998
      @ssaafmoon1998 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I got it after 6th time 🥹

    • @ArnavGarg-rl6qh
      @ArnavGarg-rl6qh 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @mark_tilltill6664
    @mark_tilltill6664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @ygreaterr
    @ygreaterr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i love infinity

  • @ガアラ-h3h
    @ガアラ-h3h ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Ghostslicer442
      @Ghostslicer442 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      how so?

    • @JinkunYan
      @JinkunYan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You need to give the reason to prove you are right, rather than said' you are wrong'

    • @williamsantos9471
      @williamsantos9471 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@JinkunYan The thing is, to rigorously prove that d/dx (sin (x)) = cos(x), you should actually use the limit definition, not just plot some points.
      While you're proving with the limit, you'll have to know the result of
      lim_(h->0) sin(h)/h
      Similarly, you'll also need to know
      lim_(h->0) (cos(h) - 1)/h
      The traditional way to prove these limits is to geometrically show that, for an angle θ near 0
      1 >= sin(θ)/θ >= cos(θ)
      As θ approaches 0, the expression is "squeezed" by 1 on both sides, so it has to be 1
      From here, the other limit is not that bad, you can use the pythagorean identity and use the result of this limit we've found
      So basically, when you use L'Hôpital's rule, you've to know already the derivative of sine, but to show what the derivative for sine is, you actually have to know the result for this limit already

  • @aselim20.
    @aselim20. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wrote it.

  • @mramadevi5014
    @mramadevi5014 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How to define a limit using real life examples

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      there are no real life examples! this is mathematics.

    • @gokulabisheak3653
      @gokulabisheak3653 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @joannali6720
    @joannali6720 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I dont know why sinx derivative to cosx

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @wrathcs
    @wrathcs 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @reynaldowify
    @reynaldowify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @flameon8185
    @flameon8185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    just came to know how to pronounce this word !!

  • @sadrevolution
    @sadrevolution 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @ericpham7974
    @ericpham7974 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How computer and human solve the no solution problem?

  • @comicawk
    @comicawk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @ashoknadan3864
    @ashoknadan3864 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    good sir.

  • @Birparaboyz
    @Birparaboyz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bro casually solves infinity 🎉

  • @arcaneinane
    @arcaneinane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i

  • @michaelespeland
    @michaelespeland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @lubodimoff9176
    @lubodimoff9176 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why do I pay for university?