The document discusses examples of exponential growth in biology, finance, and physics. In biology, it describes how viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells can grow exponentially. In finance, it explains how savings accounts with compound interest and economic growth exhibit exponential patterns over time. In physics, it discusses Moore's Law about the exponential growth in the number of transistors used in microchips.
The document discusses examples of exponential growth in biology, finance, and physics. In biology, it describes how viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells can grow exponentially. In finance, it explains how savings accounts with compound interest and economic growth exhibit exponential patterns over time. In physics, it discusses Moore's Law about the exponential growth in the number of transistors used in microchips.
The document discusses examples of exponential growth in biology, finance, and physics. In biology, it describes how viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells can grow exponentially. In finance, it explains how savings accounts with compound interest and economic growth exhibit exponential patterns over time. In physics, it discusses Moore's Law about the exponential growth in the number of transistors used in microchips.
The document discusses examples of exponential growth in biology, finance, and physics. In biology, it describes how viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells can grow exponentially. In finance, it explains how savings accounts with compound interest and economic growth exhibit exponential patterns over time. In physics, it discusses Moore's Law about the exponential growth in the number of transistors used in microchips.
Exponential fu n c t io n s Hadia fouad 10A T a b le o f c o n t e n t s
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ph ysics t ech n ology
02 04 Real -life e x a m p le s Biology The spread of a virus generally follows exponential growth. This can best be observed by looking at the spread of a viral disease. The virus causing the disease gets transferred from the carrier person to the people and objects that he/she come in contact with, thereby increasing the number of people infected by it. The number of infected people increases gradually at a fast rate, and the growth is undoubtedly exponential in nature. Biology Bacteria are single -celled microorganisms that cannot be seen by the naked eye. They are present in almost every living or non -living object present on the earth and are capable of surviving extreme temperature and pressure conditions. Bacteria reproduce with the help of a process called binary fission in which the parent cell gets divided into two daughter cells. The daughter cells further get divided into two cells each. The process goes on and on, thereby displaying an exponential growth of bacteria in a short time. biology Cancerous Cells If a healthy cell of a human body comes in contact with the infected or cancerous cell, cancer or infection tends to spread, thereby turning the healthy body cells into cancerous cells. This process of passing the infection to the neighbouringcells clearly represents an exponential growth that goes on and on till artificial processes such as laser surgery, radiotherapy, etc., are used to alter or damage the chain of the cancerous cells. Finance
One of the best examples of exponential growth can be
found in the finance domain. For instance, a saving account that is applied with an annual compound interest tends to give exponential returns to the account holder. This helps the owner obtain a large amount of capital even with a small investment. Similarly, economic growth is yet another example of exponential growth in real life. Physics
Moore’s law is named after the -founder
co of Intel Gordon E. Moore. It represents the ideology and observation made by Gordon E. Moore that the number of transistors used to make a microchip gets doubled every year. This means that keeping a yearly record of the number of transistors used by microchips display an exponential curve and represents the exponential growth of microprocessors. How do you calculate exponential fu n c t io n s o n a c a lc u la t o r ? On most graphing calculators in order to raise e to a power you must press the e key first, then press your exponent key ^, and then enter in your exponent.
Where is EXP on calculator?
Click the Exp button which you will find in the left half of the calculator keyboard. ('Exp' stands for 'exponent'.) This tells the calculator that the next number you enter will be a power of 10 and that you are working in scientific notation. How do you calculate exponential fu n c t io n s o n S P R E ADS H E E T S ?
EXP is a mathematical function in Excel that calculates the
exponential of a number. The EXP function takes a single argument, which is the number you want to calculate the exponential of. The function returns the exponential of the number, if you typed =EXP(5), Excel would return the value of e^5 (~148.413159102577). THANK YOU