Section: Calculus

INDEX
 

Introduction

Aims

Exponential functions 1:

Exponential functions 2 :

EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS
INTRODUCTION

Exponential functions are of great importance in mathematics. These functions are the ones which are most commonly found in the world around us. The following represent examples of exponential behaviour: a colony of bacteria reproducing, the disintegration of a radioactive substance, some examples of population growth, inflation, capitalising money invested with compound interest etc.

AIMS
  • To understand what this function represents.
  • To focus on its properties and characteristics.

  Leoncio Santos Cuervo
 
Spanish Ministry of Education. Year 2001
 
 

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