Exercises — Squeeze theorem (sandwich theorem)
4.1.5 · D4· Maths › Calculus I — Limits & Derivatives › Squeeze theorem (sandwich theorem)
Shuru karne se pehle, ek picture apne dimaag mein rakhna poore raaste ke liye — "walls closing in" wala scene jis par neeche ke har solution mein rely kiya gaya hai.

Lower wall (chalk blue) aur upper wall (pale yellow) dono usi height ki taraf funnel karte hain. Wiggly filling (chalk pink) inke beech pin ki hui hai, isliye woh bhi ki taraf khiench jaati hai. Har exercise basically yeh hai: do aisi walls dhundho jo milti hon.
Level 1 — Recognition
Kya tum spot kar sakte ho ki squeeze theorem fire hone ki ijazat hai bhi ya nahi?
Exercise 1.1
Har pair of walls ke liye, decide karo yes/no: kya squeeze theorem trapped ke liye ek limit force karti hai jab ?
- (a) , .
- (b) , .
- (c) , .
Recall Solution 1.1
Rule (from Squeeze theorem (sandwich theorem)): dono walls ko same value ki taraf tend karna chahiye.
- (a) aur . Same YES, .
- (b) Walls constants aur hain; woh kabhi nahi milti. NO conclusion — aur ke beech kahin bhi wander kar sakti hai.
- (c) aur . Same YES, .
Exercise 1.2
Inn mein se kaun sa function sabhi real ke liye bounded (do horizontal lines ke beech trapped) hai? "Yes" matlab woh ek squeeze ke "bounded part" ka candidate hai.
- (a) (b) (c) (d)
Recall Solution 1.2
"Bounded" = aise numbers hain jahan har jagah ho.
- (a) of kuch bhi mein rehta hai. Bounded.
- (b) of kuch bhi mein rehta hai. Bounded.
- (c) bina limit ke grow karta hai, isliye bounded nahi hai (lo , value ).
- (d) Kyunki hai, denominator hai, isliye . Bounded.
Level 2 — Application
Khud do walls set up karo aur crank ghuma do.
Exercise 2.1
Evaluate karo .
Recall Solution 2.1
Step 1 — wild part ko bound karo. of anything mein rehta hai: Kyun: cosine kabhi se bahar nahi ja sakta, chahe kitni bhi tez spin kare.
Step 2 — tame part se multiply karo. Dono taraf se multiply karo. Kyunki hamesha rehta hai, inequality directions preserved rehti hain (yeh Bounded times vanishing pattern hai):
Step 3 — squeeze. aur . Same wall-limit
Exercise 2.2
Evaluate karo .
Recall Solution 2.2
Step 1 — numerator ko bound karo. Har real ke liye, Kyun: aur , isliye unka sum size mein zyada se zyada hoga.
Step 2 — se divide karo. ke liye (hum ki taraf ja rahe hain, isliye safely hai), positive se divide karne par directions same rehti hain:
Step 3 — squeeze. aur . Isliye
Exercise 2.3
Sequence limit evaluate karo .
Recall Solution 2.3
Yeh Limits of sequences wala flavour hai: ban jaata hai .
Step 1. ya toh hai ya , isliye .
Step 2 — positive se divide karo:
Step 3 — squeeze. Dono walls . Toh limit hai.
Level 3 — Analysis
Bounds tumhe diye nahi jaate; tumhe khud sharpest wale construct karne honge.
Exercise 3.1
Evaluate karo ... ya decide karo ki yeh exist nahi karta.
Recall Solution 3.1
Squeeze karne ka mann karta hai — lekin pehle tame factor ki limit check karo. Jab , , 0 nahi. Tame part vanish nahi karta, isliye Bounded times vanishing apply nahi hoti.
ke paas product behave karta hai ki tarah, jo hamesha ke liye roughly aur ke beech oscillate karta rehta hai — kabhi settle nahi hota. Koi bhi candidate walls roughly hongi: woh nahi milti, isliye squeeze fire nahi kar sakta.
Conclusion: limit exist nahi karti. (Dekho Oscillating functions.) Lesson yeh hai: squeeze tab hi kaam karta hai jab walls close in hoti hain; yahan woh apart rehti hain.
Exercise 3.2
Evaluate karo , jahan floor hai — greatest integer .
Recall Solution 3.2
Step 1 — floor ko bound karo. Floor ki definition se, kisi bhi real ke liye, Kyun: greatest integer , se ek unit neeche ke andar rehta hai. rakho:
Step 2 — se multiply karo (direction preserved): jo simplify hoke ban jaata hai
Step 3 — squeeze. Lower wall , upper wall . Same limit Notice karo: walls par mili, par nahi — squeeze target necessarily zero nahi hona chahiye.
Exercise 3.3
Ek squeeze use karke show karo ki . (Hint: exponent ke effect ko bound karo; assume karo ki aur ek earlier note se .)
Recall Solution 3.3
Step 1 — ek friendly window tak restrict karo. lo. Yahan hai, isliye , matlab . Yeh hamari upper wall hai: .
Step 2 — lower wall. ke liye (kuch cheez ) hai. Concretely, kyunki , ke paas ke liye exponent ek shrinking interval mein rehta hai, isliye Jaise hota hai hum le sakte hain, jisse lower wall ki limit milti hai.
Step 3 — squeeze. Dono walls , isliye . (Cleaner route: aur Continuity of se, . Squeeze view dikhata hai kyun ke paas ke alawa kahin jaane ki jagah nahi hai.)
Level 4 — Synthesis
Squeeze ko doosre limit tools ke saath combine karo.
Exercise 4.1
Evaluate karo .
Recall Solution 4.1
Idea: expression ko (ek aisa piece jo ki known limit rakhta hai) (ek bounded piece) mein peel karo. Kyun aise split karein: standard trig limit hai (Limits of trigonometric functions) jahan ; bacha hua vanish ho jaata hai aur ke andar rehta hai.
Step 1 — (vanishing)(bounded) ke roop mein regroup karo. lo. Kyunki hai toh yeh ke paas rehta hai (maano ke andar) ke close, aur hai, isliye bounded hai: near .
Step 2 — poori cheez ko squeeze karo. Expression ke barabar hai, aur Kyun : ko (safe direction) se multiply karne par product ka size bound ho jaata hai.
Step 3. Dono walls , isliye
Exercise 4.2
Ek function satisfy karta hai sabhi ke liye. dhundho, aur batao ki par continuous hai ya nahi (assume karo ).
Recall Solution 4.2
Step 1 — absolute value ko do walls mein unfold karo. ka matlab hai
Step 2 — squeeze. Jaise , , isliye dono walls . Isliye
Step 3 — continuity. Kyunki hai, Continuity ki definition se, par continuous hai. (Yeh bound-and-squeeze bilkul wahi hai jo differentiability-style estimates prove karne mein use hota hai.)
Level 5 — Mastery
Har quadrant, har sign, har degenerate case.
Exercise 5.1 (sign/quadrant care)
Evaluate karo , aur explicitly justify karo multiplication step ko dono aur ke liye.
Recall Solution 5.1
Step 1 — wiggle ko bound karo: .
Step 2 — se multiply karo, lekin ka sign change hota hai. Yahi toh poora point hai.
- Agar : multiply karna direction preserve karta hai: .
- Agar : ek negative se multiply karna directions flip karta hai: , matlab .
Dono cases mein do walls aur hain — bas swapped roles mein. Isse uniformly likhne ka tarika (sign split se bachte hue) use karna hai: Kyun yeh legit hai: .
Step 3 — squeeze. , isliye Neeche wali figure dekho: graph puri tarah "cone" (chalk blue) ke andar rehta hai, kisi bhi wall ke escape ko touch nahi karta.

Exercise 5.2 (one-sided walls disagree — degenerate case)
lo ke liye (sign function). Ek student try karta hai: ", dono bounds constant hain, lekin woh nahi milti, isliye limit exist nahi karti." Kya conclusion sahi hai, aur kya reasoning valid hai?
Recall Solution 5.2
Conclusion sahi hai, lekin squeeze ki wajah se nahi. Squeeze theorem sirf kabhi ek limit produce kar sakta hai; yeh kabhi prove nahi kar sakta ki limit fail hoti hai. Walls jo nahi milti simply koi information nahi deti — woh limit ko forbid nahi karti.
Sahi reasoning: one-sided limits directly compute karo. ke liye, ; ke liye, . Left limit right limit, isliye Answer: conclusion sahi, reasoning galat — ek non-meeting squeeze kuch prove nahi karta.
Exercise 5.3 (limiting behaviour / scratch se wall banana)
Prove karo ek squeeze use karke. (Hint: ke liye, ; upper wall ke liye, likho jahan ho aur use karo.)
Recall Solution 5.3
Step 1 — lower wall. ke liye, . Toh lower wall constant hai.
Step 2 — upper wall banao. likho jahan ho. -th power tak raise karo: Binomial expansion se, saare terms hain, isliye sirf wala term rakhte hain (for ): Rearrange karne par: , hence . Isliye upper wall hai
Step 3 — squeeze. Jaise , , isliye upper wall ; lower wall hai. Dono par milti hain: Yeh mastery-level hai kyunki tumne upper wall manufacture ki ek aisi inequality se jo kisine tumhe di nahi thi.
Recall "Squeeze" claim karne se pehle master checklist
Kya meri do walls ko ke ek poore neighborhood mein sandwich karti hain? ::: Haan — inequality ke paas hold karni chahiye, sirf par nahi. Kya dono walls same number ki taraf converge karti hain? ::: Haan — alag alag limits koi conclusion nahi deti. Jab maine multiply/divide kiya, kya factor guaranteed non-negative tha (ya maine sign se split kiya / use kiya)? ::: Haan — warna inequality flip ho sakti thi. Kya main kisi limit ka exist karna prove karne ki koshish kar raha hoon, na ki disprove karne ki? ::: Squeeze sirf existence prove karta hai.
Connections
- Squeeze theorem (sandwich theorem) — parent theory jin drills ko yeh exercise karti hain.
- Limit definition (epsilon-delta) — 5.2 ke sahi disproof ke peeche ka engine.
- Limits of trigonometric functions — 4.1 ke step mein use hua.
- Bounded times vanishing — 2.1, 4.1, 5.1 mein recurring pattern.
- Limits of sequences — problems 2.3, 5.3.
- Oscillating functions — kyun 3.1 ki limit fail hoti hai.
- Continuity — 4.2 ko close karta hai.