Highlights for High School Home > AP Calculus > Limits of Functions > Intuitive Understanding: Limiting Process

Intuitive Understanding: Limiting Process

This section contains documents created from scanned original files, which are inaccessible to screen reader software. A "#" symbol is used to denote such documents.

Lecture Notes

Limits

Document PDF
Section 2, Page 2

Limits defined intuitively, including a "microscope/laser illuminator" analogy and a JAVA™ applet link.

Course: 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2005
Instructor: Prof. Jason Starr
Prior Knowledge: Concept of Tangent Line (section 1 of this lecture)
Back to Top

One-Sided Limits

Document PDF#
Page 1

Definition of right- and left-handed limits, with diagrams and examples.

Course: 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2006
Instructor: Prof. David Jerison
Prior Knowledge: None
Back to Top
 

Your use of the MIT OpenCourseWare site and course materials is subject to our Creative Commons License and other terms of use.

Creative Commons - some rights reserved
OCW Consortium