1 / 11

Log and You!

Log and You!. David Gonzales Bri Jack LeAndra Miller Kaity Cernik. History of Log!. Created by John Napier in the 16th century He developed them for astronomy research because they needed to compute large numbers.

stamos
Download Presentation

Log and You!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Log and You! David Gonzales Bri Jack LeAndra Miller Kaity Cernik

  2. History of Log! • Created by John Napier in the 16th century • He developed them for astronomy research because they needed to compute large numbers. • Used in such things as engineering, business, and sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics. • In Latin it is logarithmus by Napier • Logos in Greek means “reckoning, ratio” and arithmos means “number” so it becomes “reckoning number” • Was worked on and made better by Henry Briggs (1561-1630) who published tables for the logarithms

  3. Napier! • Napier was born in 1550 and died on April 4th, 1617 • He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland • Died of gout • He didn’t go into school until he was 13 and dropped out after a short period of time • He was believed to be a magician and used necromancy (summoning the spirits of deceased) and alchemy (attempting to change base metals into gold) • He was a religious man and was interested in the Book of Revelations

  4. Calculators • First Calculators were abathia • Earliest counting device was probably a form of tally stick • Fertile Crescent included clay shpaes, which represented counts of items, probably livestock or grains, sealed in containers • Scottish mathematician and physicist John Napier noted multiplication and division of numbers could be performed by addition and subtraction, respectively, of logarithms of those numbers • First logarithmic tables Napier needed to perform many multiplications • William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 1600s based on the emerging work on logarithms by Napier • These common operations can be time-consuming and error-prone when done on paper. More complex slide rules allow other calculations, suck as square roots, exponentials, logarithms, and trigonometric functions

  5. Slide Rule • In general, mathematical calculations are performed by aligning a mark on the sliding central strip with a mark on one of the fixed strips, and then observing the relative posistions of other marks on the strips. Numbers aligned with the marks give approximate value of the product, quotient, or other calculated result. • The user dtermines the location of the decimal point in the result, based on mental estimaion. Scientific notation is used to track the decimal poin in more formal calculations. Addition and subtraction steps in a calculation are generally done mentally or on paper, not on the slide rule.

  6. bx = y b=base x=exponent y=power If the base and the exponent are given we compute a power If the the exponent and the power are given we compute a root (or radical ) If the power and the base are given, we compute a logarithm The logarithm of a number y with respect to a base b is the exponent to which we have to raise b to obtain y. x = logby <---> bx = y Exponential form Log form

  7. Examples Ex1) a.) 102 = 100 log10100 = 2 b.) 10-2 = 0.01 log100.01 = -2 c.) 100 = 1 log101 = 0 Ex2) a.) 23 = 8 log28 = 3 b.) 32 = 9 log39 = 2 c.) 251/2 = 5 log255 = 1/2

  8. Special Bases-Logarithms with respect to the base b=10 are called common logarithms, and logarithms with respect to the base e=2.71828...are called natural logarithms • Common logarithms have a base of 10, and natural logarithms have a base of e.

  9. Follow Me! http://people.hofstra.edu/stefan_waner/realworld/calctopic1/logs.html

  10. Citations • Alfred, Peter. "What on Earth is a Logarithm? ." The University of Utah. N.p., 27061997. Web. 20 Apr 2010. <http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/log.html>. • "Logarithms." Logarithms. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Apr 2010. <http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/met/courses/met162/html/default_logarithms.html>. • "Ask Doctor Math ." The Math Forum@ Drexel. Drexel University, 27 10 1999. Web. 20 Apr 2010. <http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58047.html>. • "John Napier." Wikapedia. N.p., 15 4 2010. Web. 20 Apr 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier>. • "Henry Briggs." N.p., 07 1999. Web. 20 Apr 2010. <http://www-history.mcs.st- and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Briggs.html>. • Marcus, Nancy. "Math Skills Review Logarithms." N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Apr 2010. <http://www.sosmath.com/algebra/logs/log4/log4.html>. • Mashburn, Steve. "Documents and other resources to supplement the blog I Want to Teach Forever". April 18,2010 <http://sites.google.com/site/teachforever/>. • McAllen, D. "I Want to Teach Forever". April 18, 2010 <http://www.teachforever.com/2009/02/transforming-logarithmic-functions.htm>. • "Math Skills Review Logarithms." N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Apr 2010. <http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-log.html>. • Waner, Stephan. "Logarithms." N.p., Oct 1999. Web. 20 Apr 2010. <http://people.hofstra.edu/stefan_waner/realworld/calctopic1/

More Related