Logarithms
Go to StudyCoach.com
for a lesson about logarithms.
This is a site used by the Math Department at the
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, to help students taking
lower level math courses.
- When you get there, select: Unit 4,
Logarithms. Get out your notes on logarithms.
- Read through the Introduction, the
Explanation, and each of the objectives. Match your notes with the
information at the site. Add to your notes when you feel it will
be helpful.
- Write an example of the "log
loop."
- List the logarithms you can
compute using your calculator.
- Write the value of e and write
a short explanation of how it is found and who first studied
it.
- Another source of
information on e can be found at the MacTutor
History of Mathematics
Archive. Click on
this link, then click on: Search the Archive > History
Topics > keyword exponential > The number e.
- List the basic properties of
logarithms.
- Write solutions for the
problems in the four examples.
- Now select Logarithm
Equations.
- Read the Introduction, the
Explanation, and each of the objectives.
- Write solutions to the 4
example problems.
- Read the lesson on Exponential
Growth and Decay.
- Do the interactive worksheet,
Exponential Growth and Decay, listed in the right column, toward
the top. Write your solutions.
Hand in your answers and
solutions to everything above that was written in
red.