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explain what is meant by a logarithm. state and use the laws of logarithms. solve simple equations requiring the use of logarithms. Contents. Introduction. Why do we study logarithms ? What is a logarithm ? if x = an then loga x = n. 4. Exercises. 5. The first law of logarithms. loga xy = loga x + loga y. 6. The second law of logarithms.
a > 0, a 6= 1 and b > 0 we have: loga b = c , ac = b. What does it mean? First of all the assumptions (restrictions) are important. The number a, called the base of the logarithm, has to be greater than 0 and cannot be equal to 1. The number b (which we take the logarithm of) has to be greater than 0.
traditional study of logarithms, we have deprived our students of the evolution of ideas and concepts that leads to deeper understanding of many concepts associated with logarithms. As a result, teachers now could hear “(5.2)y = 30.47, y = 6.32 because the calculator says so,” (52 = 25 for goodness sakes!!)
Developed by John Napier in 1614, the purpose of a logarithm is to do multiplication and division by basic addition and subtraction. Suppose you have a number but wish to rewrite it as a power of 10.
Logarithms. If a > 1 or 0 < a < 1, then the exponential function f : R ! (0, defined 1) as f (x) = ax is one-to-one and onto. That means it has an inverse function. If either a > 1 or 0 < a < 1, then the inverse of the function ax is. loga : (0, 1) ! and it’s called a logarithm of base a.
A logarithm represents the scale of a number. Think of all the one-digit numbers, 1 through 9. (For now we're skipping over 0.) Of course these numbers are all di erent, but they're close enough to each other to be easily comparable. However the two-digit numbers, 10 through 99, are on a totally di erent scale. They're easily comparable to each.
This topic introduces logarithms and exponential equations. Logarithms are used to solve exponential equations, and so are used along with exponential functions when modelling
