I'm trying to evaluate the following limit:
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I've tried multiplying by the conjugate and variable substitution. I had a look at wolfram alpha and it said that \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sqrt{1- \cos x^2}}{1 - \cos x}=\sqrt{2}, though I'm interested in the process to achieve that.
Any help would be much appreciated / actually finding the limit.
Thanks
Answer
Note: I am using the limit \lim_{\theta \to 0}\frac{\sin \theta}{\theta}=1 and the identity 1-\cos 2A=2\sin^2 A.
\begin{align*} \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sqrt{1- \cos x^2}}{1 - \cos x} & = \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sqrt{2 \sin^2 \left(x^2/2\right)}}{2 \sin^2 \left(x/2\right)}\\ & = \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sin \left(x^2/2\right)}{\sqrt{2}\sin^2 \left(x/2\right)}\\ & = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sin \left(x^2/2\right)}{x^2/2}\frac{(x/2)^2}{\sin^2 \left(x/2\right)}.2\\ & =\sqrt{2}. \end{align*}
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