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AP Calculus AB›Unit 1: Limits and Continuity›Limits

Introducing Calculus: Change at an Instant

Calculus starts with a puzzle: how can something change at a single instant? Limits answer it by looking at what average rates approach over smaller and smaller intervals.

Average vs. instantaneous change
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1Limits and Continuity

Introducing Calculus: Change at an Instant
What a Limit Means
Estimating Limits from Graphs and Tables
Finding Limits Algebraically
The Squeeze Theorem
Types of Discontinuity
Continuity at a Point and on an Interval
Infinite Limits and Vertical Asymptotes
Limits at Infinity
Intermediate Value Theorem

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