Warm Up

Use
the Test for Divergence to draw a conclusion about
the series.

Harmonic Series and the Test for Divergence

Recall from Unit 1:

Section 11.3 The Integral Test and Estimates of Sums

What

can we do when we cant find an explicit relation

for sn?
Example:
Consider the curve of y = .

Euler!

Example:

Why are we doing a right-endpoint approximation?

=

Test #2: The Integral Test

OTES:
The series need not start at n = 1.
.g.

) f(x) does not need to be always decreasing, but it must be

ltimately decreasing.

Your Task
Determine for which values of p the series

converges.

Example 3

Determine

whether the following series are convergent or

divergent.

Estimating the Sum of a Series

Let the remainder Rn be the error involved when using sn
as an estimate for s, the sum of a series.
Rn = s sn =

Adding sn to all sides of the inequality:

Euler!