Timeline for Interesting settings for exponential growth or decay
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| Apr 28, 2022 at 18:49 | comment | added | ryang | Beer's Law predicts that for a sunscreen of SPF $s,$ its effective SPF $f$ varies exponentially with the fraction $x$ of the prescribed amount that is applied: $f=s^x.$ | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 20:07 | answer | added | WeCanLearnAnything | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 22, 2018 at 22:31 | answer | added | user507 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 22, 2018 at 3:58 | answer | added | KCd | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 23:23 | answer | added | Jasper | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 18:08 | comment | added | guest | Too scary. Stick to radioactivity and poison ;-) | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 18:05 | comment | added | Brendan W. Sullivan | Depending on the context of the course, you can make this a chance to introduce/practice modeling skills, as well. The US National Debt (data table here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… ) is appropriately modeled with a concave up, increasing exponential. I have used this example successfully in a sort of "business calculus" course and I imagine it would work well in others, too. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 17:31 | history | edited | Chaim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2018 at 15:54 | answer | added | guest | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 15:25 | history | asked | Chaim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |