Test Topics
Test 2
10/10/06
Sec. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
- Shape/basic features of exponentials
- Compounded interest
- Continuously compounded interest
- Doubling time and half-life
- Given a graph, write an equation in the form Q=abt
- Meaning of logarithm
- Inverse relationship between logs and exponentials
- Convert between log and exponential forms
- Evaluate simple logs
- Solve logarithmic and exponential equations
- Shape/basic features of logarithmic graphs
- Natural and common logs - meaning, and notation
- Properties of logs
- Expanding/condensing log expressions using log properties
- Solving exponential equations of all types
- Solve log equations of all types
- Applications of exponential and logarithmic functions
- Transformations of graphs:
- translations (shifts)
- expansions/compressions
- reflections
- Use transformations on graphs, equations, tables
and/or individual points
- Odd/even/neither functions
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