Wednesday, 14 August 2019

calculus - Solve limit containing (1/0) using L'Hopital's Rule

I was assigned a problem in my calculus 2 course that I can't seem to solve. We're going over indeterminate forms solved by L'Hopital's Rule.



limxπ(csc(x)+xtan(x2))



This is in the indeterminate form [], which is given, except I'm not sure why, as csc(π) is undefined. Is this because trig functions occur infinitely (within their range), e.g. sin(x)=1, occurs for infinite x's?



After applying L'Hopital's Rule, I get:



limxπ(csc(x)cot(x)+112sec2(x2))



However, I don't understand how I'm supposed to solve from here. No matter how many times we derive, csc(x) won't go away and I'm not aware of any trigonometric identities that can simplify the undefined division away. Am I missing something obvious?

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