Notes - Loga rithms
Notes - Loga rithms
Logarithms
Grade 09
Topics to Be Covered
1 Introduction
Laws
2 2.1
2.2
2.3
Product Law
Quotient Law
Power Law 1
2.4 Power Law 2
3 Identities
4 Properties
1. Introduction
Standard Logarithms
𝒚 = 𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝒂 𝒙
Base of a logarithm
Logarithm operator
log𝑥 𝑝𝑟 = 𝑟log𝑥 𝑝
1
log 𝑥𝑟 𝑃 = log𝑥 𝑝
𝑟
3. Identities
log 𝑚 𝑎
log𝑎1 = 0 log𝑏 𝑎 =
log 𝑚 𝑏
log𝑎𝑎 = 1 𝑎log𝑎𝑚 = 𝑚
4. Properties
1
log 𝑎 𝑏 =
log 𝑏 𝑎
log 𝑏 𝑎 × log 𝑎 𝑏 = 1
log𝑎 𝑎 𝑥 = 𝑥
Mind Map
Logarithms Identities
log 𝑎 1 = 0
log 𝑎 𝑎 = 1
Laws
Properties log 𝑏 𝑎 =
log 𝑚 𝑎
log 𝑚 𝑏
𝑎 log𝑎𝑚 = 𝑚
log𝑥 𝑝𝑟 = 𝑟log𝑥 𝑝
log 𝑎 𝑎 𝑥 = 𝑥
1
log 𝑥 𝑟 𝑃 = log𝑥 𝑝
𝑟