MATH 1501: WEEK 13

Topics for this week are:

• Introduction to some prominent transcendental functions

Text coverage:     Sections 7.1 - 7.3, 7.5 and 7.6 - 7.7 of Salas, Hille, and Etgen

Online resources:

• Maple Worksheets
  • The Year of the Fastest Growth for the US Population: The U. S. Constitution requires a census every ten years. We provide a "Logistic Fit" for that data and graph the fit superimposed with the data. This worksheet then asks the following question: In what year does this logistic fit suggest the fastest growth in the U. S. census data?
  • Growth, Decay, and Exponential Functions: The real reason we learn about the exponential function in this course is that it has a lot of important applications. In this worksheet we discuss some of their applications to archaeology (carbon dating), atmospheric radiation, and predictions of populations.

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