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CHAPTER
Limits and Continuity
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1.1 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT LINES
AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
1.2 THE CONCEPT OF LIMIT
1.3 COMPUTATION OF LIMITS
1.4 CONTINUITY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
1.5 LIMITS INVOLVING INFINITY; ASYMPTOTES
1.6 FORMAL DEFINITION OF THE LIMIT
1.7 LIMITS AND LOSS-OF-SIGNIFICANCE ERRORS

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
Secant Lines
The slope of a straight line is the change in y divided by
the change in x.

The line through two points on a curve is called a secant

line.

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
Secant Lines

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
Slope at a Point
So, what do we mean by the slope of a curve at a point?
The answer can be visualized by graphically
zooming in on the specified
point.

Continuing in this way, we obtain

successively better estimates of
the slope.
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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
EXAMPLE 1.2 Estimating the Slope of a Curve.
Estimate the slope of y = sin x at x = 0.

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
EXAMPLE 1.2 Estimating the Slope of a Curve.

Solution

A good estimate of the slope

of the curve at the point
(0, 0) would appear to be 1.

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
Arc Length of a Curve
A second problem requiring the power of calculus is that of
computing distance along a curved path (the curve’s arc
length).

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
Arc Length of a Curve
The distance of the curve shown must be greater than .

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
Arc Length of a Curve
The approximation improves as the number of line
segments increases.

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
EXAMPLE 1.3 Estimating the Arc Length of a Curve

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 A BRIEF PREVIEW OF CALCULUS: TANGENT
1.1 LINES AND THE LENGTH OF A CURVE
EXAMPLE 1.3 Estimating the Arc Length of a Curve

Solution

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