L’Hôpital’s Theorem

L’Hôpital’s Theorem can be used when evaluating limits that have a certain sort of “indeterminate form” (either \(\frac{0}{0}\) or \(\frac{\pm\infty}{\pm\infty}\)). Subject to some other conditions (What are they? Make sure you check that they’re satisfied!), we can use L’Hôpital’s Theorem to calculate limits like

\[\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}\]

Use L’Hôpital’s Theorem to find the value of this limit for tomorrow’s lesson. Also, what do you think about the result shown below?

\[\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\cos x}{x}=\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{-\sin x}{1}=0\]

Mock Exams

If you have any questions concerning the mock exam material, you can post them in the comments section below.

Our exams are on Monday Period 4 (paper 1, no calculator) and Tuesday P1 (paper 2).

Good luck!

Probability and Complex Numbers Test

Our next test (on Wednesday, November 30th) will be a mix of questions on the topics of probability and complex numbers.

In preparing for the test, the following questions will be useful.

Pages 562–570 questions 1, 3, 14, 18, 24, 34, 42, 43

Pages 459-460 questions 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 24

Exploration Information

Attached are the slides used in part of today’s lesson, which contain a few notes on the exploration (most of which come directly from IB documentation).

You can find the slides here.

More Probability

Here are a few questions that will involve all of the material that we’ve covered so far. Complete these before our next lesson on Thursday.

Page 548–552 questions 6, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 25