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| ====== Math 445 lecture 4: log-linear relations ====== | ====== Math 445 lecture 4: log-linear relations ====== | ||
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| Logarithmic plots are useful when the data you're plotting varies over many orders of magnitude. Logarithmic plots can also highlight certain functional relationships | Logarithmic plots are useful when the data you're plotting varies over many orders of magnitude. Logarithmic plots can also highlight certain functional relationships | ||
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| In lecture I will show (1) why each of these functional relationships appears as a straight line in the corresponding plot command and (2) how to estimate the values of the constants from a graph, in order to estimate $y(x)$ as an explicit function, given a few data points. | In lecture I will show (1) why each of these functional relationships appears as a straight line in the corresponding plot command and (2) how to estimate the values of the constants from a graph, in order to estimate $y(x)$ as an explicit function, given a few data points. | ||
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| + | You can derive these formulae from the log-linear relations instead of memorizing them. For example, you can derive $y = c \; 10^{mx}$ by exponentiating both sides of $\log y = m x + b$. | ||
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