Chapter 2

Limits and
Continuity

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 Section 2.1
Rates of Change and
Tangents Lines to Curves

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Section 2.2
Limit of a Function
and Limit Laws

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 FIGURE 2.15 The Sandwich Theorem
confirms the limits in Example 12.

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 Section 2.3
The Precise Definition of a Limit

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Section 2.4
One-Sided Limits

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FIGURE 2.27 Graph of the function
in Example 1.

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 Section 2.5
Limits Involving Infinity;
Asymptotes of Graphs

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Section 2.6
Continuity

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