NEKG33 Mathematical methods for economists
Chapter 5 : Day 05: Power- exponential and logarithmic functions
By Lund University
Have you had the pleasure of working with logarithms? You may find them a bit nasty, but they are actually quite nice. We will cram in some other stuff as well such as power- and exponential functions.
Logarithms
We begin the section on logarithms by looking at the common logarithm. Next, we look at the logarithmic identities and the logarithm of a product, a ratio and a power. We move on to the natural logarithm and the rules governing the natural logarithm and we conclude section with logarithms with an arbitrary base.
The common logarithm
Logarithmic laws for the common logarithm
The natural logarithm
Logarithm with arbitrary base
Nonlinear functions
In this section we will look at the most common nonlinear functions. We begin with rational functions followed by power functions, functions where the base in the power is our variable. For the exponential functions, it is the exponent in the power is our variable. This section is concluded with the logarithmic functions.
Rational functions
Power functions
Exponential functions
Logarithmic functions
Problems, Nonlinear functions
Exercises on nonlinear functions.