Wednesday, August 26, 2015

calculus - Prove limxrightarrow0fracsin(x)x=1 with the epsilon-delta definition of limit.



It is well known that



lim



I know several proofs of this: the geometric proof shows that \cos(\theta)\leq\frac {\sin(\theta)}{\theta}\leq1 and using the Squeeze Theorem I conclude that \lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac {\sin(x)}{x} = 1, other proof uses the Maclaurin series of \sin(x). My question is: is there a demonstration of this limit using the epsilon-delta definition of limit?


Answer



Here is a more direct answer for this: Since \cos\theta<\frac{\sin\theta}{\theta}<1, one can get
\bigg|\frac{\sin\theta}{\theta}-1\bigg|<1-\cos\theta.

But 1-\cos\theta=2\sin^2\frac{\theta}{2}\le\frac{\theta^2}{2} and hence
\bigg|\frac{\sin\theta}{\theta}-1\bigg|\le\frac{\theta^2}{2}.
Now it is easy to use \varepsilon-\delta definition to get the answer.


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