Example 2 illustrates how to determine where a piecewise function is discontinuous. For example, the square wave function is piecewise, and it. A function is continuous at when three conditions are satisfied. Note: For solving these questions the intervals in which the function is defined are very much important because defining any function in any interval shows that the function is continuous at that value or not and is the function going to infinity or not which decides the continuity of a function. Just because a graph looks like its a piecewise continuous function, it doesnt mean that it is. If the graph $s\left( x \right)$ is restricted to this domain, it still looks like it is discontinuous at 0, but 0 is not a part of the domain, so the function is continuous. In the continuous function graphed above, for example.
However, there are other definitions of continuity, whereby a function is. This won't happen in any of your functions at x 0. This is because in order for a limit lim x x 0 f ( x) to exist, the function must be defined in some open interval containing x 0. So, the left and right limits disagree with one another and with the value of the function at $x=0$in our example, the definition of $s\left( x \right)$ as a function from $\left( -\infty ,0 \right)\cup \left( 0,\infty \right)\to R$ is continuous. In other words, if f is continuous on a, b, it must pass through every y-value bounded by f(a) and f(b). By your definition of continuity, none of your plotted functions are continuous. & \displaystyle \lim_s\left( x \right)=-1 \\Īt $x=0$, the graph of the function jumps. We cannot redefine $s\left( x \right)$ at that point and get a continuous function. The function is discontinuous at $x=0$ and we cannot remove it. The function is continuous for all $x\in R$ except $x=0$. We can say that the piecewise continuous function has a finite number of breaks and it doesn’t go to infinity.
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