Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Class Notes For Thursday - Radicals

Brush up on your laws of exponents here because we will use them:
http://lshs-math.blogspot.com/2011/10/laws-of-exponents.html

N-th Root of a real number:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AzZ_H7Gb-s

Powers with rational exponents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S30fQ2Y-mxA

Radicals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5H6CpNVL8

Reducing the Radicand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zNk6hu04t4

Rationalizing the denominator part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FgzmZL3Ts8
Rationalizing the denominator part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpQ1LrxcQMQ

Examples of
Rationalizing the denominator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vID2mKZjAzk

4 comments:

  1. i don't really understand the "examples of rationalizing the denominator". What does it help you find?
    all the other videos are really helpful :)

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  2. Rationalizing the denominator just means getting rid or the radical in the denominator. you're not allowed to have a radical in the denominator, so to remove it you do what is called "rationalizing the denominator" using the techniques in the videos...

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  3. is "Rationalizing the denominator" a 506 topic or 566???

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  4. It's a topic that was first introduced for the 566 class but is also important for the 506...
    Thanks for asking.

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