Go over exponential review sheet. Exponential Explosion worksheet. Photography and exponential functions worksheet.

Class notes.

Exponential functions - parent functions and transformations (stretch/shrink, translations horizontally/vertically, and reflections). CBL Lab on Newton's Law of Cooling and fitting an exponential curve to data. Worksheet/Exploration.

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Read pp 218 - 221, 225.

Do pp 226 - 228: 7 - 10, 17 - 22, 25 and 26 (graph both by hand), 45 - 48, 67, 68.

More on exponential growth/decay. Compound interest and length of time with compounding. Exploration leading to continuously compounding and a definition of e. Idea of a limit.

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Read pp 222 - 224.

Do p 227: 50 - 58 (evens), 61, 66;

Do pp 264 - 266: 8, 12, 15, 17, 21, 35 and 40 (use your calculator to explore for 17, 21, 35c and 40.)

Quiz on Laws of Exponents and Graphs of Exponential Functions next class.

Quiz on Laws of Exponents and Graphs of Exponential Functions. Warmup - Exploration of Powers of 10. Definition of a logartihm with note worksheet. Logarithms with base 10 and base e.

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Read Chapter 3 Section 2 (pp 229 -231 and p 233.)

Do p 236: 2 - 5, 10 - 14, 17 - 20, 23, 26, 45, 51, 52, 53, 55, 61.

Warmup. Revisit inverse functions and graphs. Graphing logarithmic functions. Tranforming logarithmic functions and their graphs via worksheet.

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Do pp 226 - 228: 27, 32, 42, 53, 73;

Do pp 236 - 237: 27 - 30, 31, 35, 36, 39 - 44, 70, 78, 81, 83.

End of Third Quarter on Thursday 11 March

Properties of logarithms, including inverse properties.

Class notes.

Read Chapter 3 Section 3 (pp 239 - 242).

Do pp 243 - 245:  1, 4, 9, 12, 18, 20, 26, 27, 31, 36, 38, 39, 41, 47, 54, 59, 62, 69, 72, 79, 80, 84.

Warmup. Solving exponential and logarithmic equations via class worksheet/notes.

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Quiz Friday on logarithms, graphs of logarithms and properties of logarithms.

Read section 3.4 (pp 246 - 252.)

Do p 253: 3, 7, 11, 15, 17 , 21, 27, 33, 46, 53, 79, 85, 88, 89, 97, 103, 113 (show work and please check your solutions before you come to class!)

Quiz on logs, graphs and properties. Warmup. Applications of exponential and logarithmic functions via worksheet.

Class notes.

Read pp 258 - 260, 263.

Do pp 264 - 266: 7, 10, 14, 35, 51.

Do pp 271 - 273: 7 - 10, 13, 23, 26, 41, 44, 52, 79, 93, 107, 127. (These are review problems for Chapter 3.)

Finish Practice Work for Chapter 3. Study for Test.

Solutions to Practice Work.

Spring Break