Lesson #12
Computation of Limits

Quote of the Day: 
       "The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the 
         spirit of man."  -- David Hilbert
     

Objectives:
    The student will compute limits.

1. Collect Homework.

2. Computing Limits
    
     Draw a graph of Quality vs. Capacity to Work in the second panel of the following comic:
       
        This is an example of a limit.   Your graph should look like the right half of #5 below.

       

               

       

       

       

       

3. Steps in Evaluating Limits
       

       

4. Comics involving Limits
        Click here for Limits comic strip

        Click here for Limits comic strip

        Click here for comic strip on calculus

        Click here for a poem on limits

5. Assignment:    
   p. 121 Quick Check (1, 3, 4)
   p. 121 (2, 3, 6 - 9, 15 - 18, 20, 24, 28, 31)
   Begin p. 131 (1, 2, 9, 11, 12 - 16, 27)

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