Saturday, 27 September 2014

continuity - Checking whether a function is continuous or not



Set

f(x)={x2sin(1/x),when x0;0,when x=0.



Now we have to check whether f(x) is continuous at x= 0 and ''(0) exists or not.
All I've done is calculating the f''(x) as I don't know how to proceed. If you can help me about how to think this. I know that we can check RHS = value at point = LHS, but I cannot apply it here because of the sin function. I don't get it, thank you for helping.



P.s. what is reputation? Why do I need it to upload picture? :-o


Answer



We have

f'(x)=\begin{cases} 2\,x\sin\dfrac1x-\cos\dfrac1x&\text{if }x\ne0,\\ 0&\text{if } x=0. \end{cases} f' is discontinuous at x=0, since \lim_{x\to0}f'(x) does not exist. This implies that f''(0) does not exist.


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