COMPARISON TEST OF

CONVERGENCES AND
THEIR APPLICATIONS
SUBJECT NAME – ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS SUBMITTED BY:
CODE- BT-102
ANUBHAV TOMAR

SUBMITTED TO :
DR MANOJ SHARAMA
 INTRODUCTION

 When the comparision test be used ?

Ans) we use the comparision test to determine the convergence or divergence of a series or sequence
in this test we can compare the given series to one whose convergence series are known
 COMPARISON TEST OF CONVERGENCE
•  In this section, we show how to use comparison tests to determine the
convergence or divergence of a series by comparing it to a series whose
convergence or divergence is known. Typically these tests are used to determine
convergence of series that are similar to geometric series or p-series.

Comparison Test:

• when these series converge and when they diverge. Here we show how to use the convergence
or divergence of these series to prove convergence or divergence for other series, using a
method called the comparison test
EXAMPLE
 APPLICATIONS OF THE COMPARISON TESTS

• This web page contains some examples of the use of the comparison test. The comparison
test is perhaps the most basic and the most useful test of all and will be used many times
later on, including in the proofs of some important theorems and other tests for convergence
such as the ratio test .
• I will illustrate both versions of the comparison test here. In the forms I have presented them,
the basic form of the comparison test is more general and applies to a greater number of
series, and in all cases where the limit comparison test is used the other form may be used
instead. The limit comparison test may be conceptually a little harder to state and use, and
the final calculation does involves a limit, but generally speaking the algebraic manipulations
required tend to be easier. You can, if you prefer, just learn the first version of the test and use
that throughout.
 Examples using the limit form of the test
Example.
 The series =1 2+3+1 4+3 2+4+1 converges.
Proof.  Examples using the basic form of the
Example. test

 The series =1 2+3+1 8 3+3 2+4+1 diverges.
Example.
Proof.
 
The series =1 1(+12)2 converges.

Proof.

Example.
 
The series =1 13-1 diverges.

Proof.
 APPLICATIONS of comparison test

Comparison test of convergence and divergence is mainly used determine the convergence or

divergence of a given series.

1. ΣVn is convergent then ΣUn is also convergent if :

(finite and positive)
→
n ∞
2. ΣVN IS DIVERGENT THEN ΣUN IS ALSO DIVERGENT IF:

THE SERIES : Σ1/N^P = 1/1^P + 1/2^P + 1/3^P +………1/N

 OUTCOME

• The comparison tests are used to determine convergence or divergence of series with
positive terms.
• When using the comparison tests, a series ∑∞n=1an∑n=1∞an is often compared to a
geometric or p-series.
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