Archives for the Month of February, 2006

Section 5.1 – Vertical and Horizontal Shifts

I just finished section 5.1 in the Math Center and I thought it went pretty well. The only thing I’m still trying to grasp of horizontal shift (that to move to the right you have to say f(x-2) and to the left you write f(x+2) because the example on page 183 and 184, it’s shifted [...]

Section 4.4 – log scales

I just finished section 4.4 which is about log scales. I have never ever in my whole life seen log scales and I’ve been very confused trying to understand the concept of how something isn’t a linear scale but a log scale! But I did successfully finish the assigned homework problems for this section and [...]

Math: Presidents’ Day weekend

So I don’t have class today since it’s President Day Weekend holiday.. but I did have class on Wednesday. Wednesday we had a quiz on sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. The quiz was okay, but I ended up checking the first problem incorrectly so I said it had no solution when really it did. Fortunately, [...]

Math audio post

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Precalc Section 3.1

I finished most of the assigned homework problems for section 3.1 (intro to the family of exponential functions). The main points in this section are about the exponential formula: f(t)= ab^t, b>0.
What’s really important in the equation is that ‘a’ is the initial value of Q (at t=0) and b, the base, is the GROWTH [...]