Friday, 1 September 2017

calculus - How to find $lim_{x to 0}frac{1-cos(2x)}{sin^2{(3x)}}$ without L'Hopital's Rule.





How would you find $\displaystyle\lim_{x \to 0}\frac{1-\cos(2x)}{\sin^2{(3x)}}$ without L'Hopital's Rule?




The way the problem is set up, it makes me think I would try and use the fact that



$\displaystyle\lim_{x \to 0}\frac{1-\cos(x)}{x}=0$ or $\displaystyle\lim_{x \to 0}\frac{\sin(x)}{x}=1$



So one idea I did was to multiply the top and bottom by $2x$ like so:




$\displaystyle\lim_{x \to 0}\frac{1-\cos(2x)}{\sin^2{(3x)}}\cdot\frac{2x}{2x}$.



Then I would let $\theta=2x$:



$\displaystyle\lim_{\theta \to 0}\frac{1-\cos(\theta)}{\sin^2{(\frac{3}{2}\theta)}}\cdot\frac{\theta}{\theta}$



which would let me break it up:



$\displaystyle\lim_{\theta \to 0}\frac{1-\cos(\theta)}{\theta}\cdot \frac{\theta}{\sin^2(\frac{3}{2}\theta)}$




So I was able to extract a trigonometric limit that is zero or at least see it. The second part needed more work. My immediate suspicion was maybe the whole limit will go to zero, but when checking with L'Hopital's Rule, I get $\frac{2}{9}$..... :/


Answer



Also try this one: with
$$1-\cos2t=2\sin^2t$$
then
$$\lim_{x \to 0}\frac{1-\cos(2x)}{\sin^2{(3x)}}=\lim_{x \to 0}\frac{2\sin^2x}{\sin^23x}\times\dfrac{(3x)^2}{2(x)^2}\times\dfrac{2}{9}=\lim_{x \to 0}\frac{2\sin^2x}{2(x)^2}\times\dfrac{(3x)^2}{\sin^23x}\times\dfrac{2}{9}=\color{blue}{\dfrac{2}{9}}$$


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