Why does the interchanging of the limit and the integral not work here? Is it due to not having uniform convergence?

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I have that $ f(x,t) = \frac{2x^2t}{(x^2 + t^2)^2}, t \in [0,1] $ and I am asked to show that $$ \lim_{x \downarrow 0} \int_0^1 f(x,t) \,dt \neq \int_0^1 \lim_{x \downarrow 0} f(x,t) \,dt $$

I have that the RHS is 1 and the LHS is 0.

I am struggling to answer is why this doesn't work in terms of interchanging the limit and the integral. I think it may be to do with the fact $f(x,t)$ doesn't converge uniformly to $f(x)$ but I don't know how to show this or if it is even the correct reason why the interchanged limit and integral aren't equal.

How would I prove $f_t(x)$ doesn't converge to $f(x)$ uniformly (that is assuming I have correctly identified why it doesn't work)?

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Set $x=1/n$. Then you have $\displaystyle\int_0^1\frac{2(1/n)^2t}{( (1/n)^2 + t^2)^2}dt$ and the fact that the two integrals are not equal proves that the convergence of the integrand sequence is not uniform.

To do it from scratch, note that $f_n(t)=\frac{2(1/n)^2t}{( (1/n)^2 + t^2)^2}\to 0$ pointwise but with $t_n=1/n,$ we get $\frac{2/n^3}{2/n^4}=n\to \infty$ as $n\to \infty$, so the convergence is not uniform.