Friday, October 30, 2015

radicals - Calculating the following limit: limxto0fracsqrtx2+1sqrtx+11sqrtx+1



I am trying to calculate this limit:
lim



I've tried using conjugate of both denominator and numerator but I can't get the right result.


Answer



\frac{\sqrt{x^2+1}-\sqrt{x+1}}{1-\sqrt{x+1}}

=\frac{(1+\sqrt{x+1})\{x^2+1-(x+1)\}}{(\sqrt{x^2+1}+\sqrt{x+1})(1-(x+1))}
=\frac{(1+\sqrt{x+1})\{x(x-1)\}}{(\sqrt{x^2+1}+\sqrt{x+1})(-x)}
=\frac{(1+\sqrt{x+1})(1-x)}{(\sqrt{x^2+1}+\sqrt{x+1})}\text { if } x\ne0



As x\to0,x\ne0



So, \lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sqrt{x^2+1}-\sqrt{x+1}}{1-\sqrt{x+1}}=\lim_{x\to0}\frac{(1+\sqrt{x+1})(1-x)}{(\sqrt{x^2+1}+\sqrt{x+1})}=\frac{(1+1)}{(1+1)}=1







Alternatively, as \lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sqrt{x^2+1}-\sqrt{x+1}}{1-\sqrt{x+1}} is of the form \frac00,



Applying L'Hospital's Rule we get,
\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sqrt{x^2+1}-\sqrt{x+1}}{1-\sqrt{x+1}}
=\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\frac x{\sqrt{x^2+1}}-\frac1{2\sqrt{x+1}}}{-\frac1{2\sqrt{x+1}}}
=\lim_{x\to0}\left(1-\frac{2x\sqrt{x+1}}{\sqrt{x^2+1}}\right)\text{ as }x+1\ne0
=1


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