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:
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Maple Worksheets
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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?
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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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School of Mathematics,
Georgia Institute of Technology.