After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.

  • Define continuity in terms of limits.
  • Calculate limits using the limit laws.
  • Famous functions are continuous on their domains.
  • Calculate limits by replacing a function with a continuous function.
  • Identify where a function is, and is not, continuous.
  • Understand the connection between continuity of a function and the value of a limit.
  • Make a piecewise function continuous.