# Math Help - sin(x^2) not uniformly continuous

1. ## sin(x^2) not uniformly continuous

Can someone please explain to me why sin(x^2) is not uniformly continuous.

2. Originally Posted by summerset353
Can someone please explain to me why sin(x^2) is not uniformly continuous.
On what set?

3. the set being R

4. The reason is that the function is contionuos and bounded but its derivative is unbounded...

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5. that's false.

consider $f(t)=\sqrt t$ being uniformly continuous on $[0,\infty)$ but its derivative is not bounded.

6. Krizalid is right. Having bounded derivative is a sufficient condition for being uniformly continuous, but it is not necessary.

Consider the sequences $x_n=\sqrt{2\pi n}$, $y_n=\sqrt{2\pi n+\pi/2}$. We have that $|y_n-x_n|$
tends to 0 and $f(y_n)-f(x_n)=1$. From this fact it follows that $f$ is not uniformly continuous.

7. Originally Posted by summerset353
Can someone please explain to me why sin(x^2) is not uniformly continuous.
Let $f(x) = \sin(x^2)$. Let $x_n = \sqrt{(2n+\tfrac12)\pi}$ and $y_n = \sqrt{(2n+\tfrac32)\pi}$. Notice that $x_n$ and $y_n$ can be arbitrarily close (for n large enough) and yet $|f(x_n) - f(y_n)|=2$.