Lesson #15
Continuity




Quote of the Day:
"The calculus is one of the greatest edifices constructed by mankind."
-- Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics

Objectives:
The student will learn the definition of continuity and apply it to problems.



1. Collect Homework.

2. First, examine some graphs intuitively and determine whether or not they are continuous at the indicated point:




4. Point of Discontinuity -
If a function is discontinuous at a point, the discontinuity may be Removable or Nonremovable depending upon whether the limit of the function exists at the point of discontinuity.



5. Examples: Test for continuity at the indicated points:





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7. Assignment:
p. 152 (1, 11, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29a,b)

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