Thursday, 26 November 2015

calculus - Using nth Term Test to find if cos(frac1n) is divergent




So in this problem I'm required to use the nth term test for:



n=1cos(1n)



I made it into:



lim



I think it's going to diverge because cosine oscillates, but I don't know how to prove it with the nth term limit that I have above. Would I just divide by \frac{cos\frac{1}{n}}{\frac{1}{n}}? I'm lost.


Answer




Since \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \cos (\frac{1}{n}) = \cos (0) = 1 \neq 0
then the series \sum_{n=1}^\infty\cos(\frac{1}{n})
will diverge.


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