Compound interest and half lives – tutoring precalculus

We looked at problems with continuous interest in terms of banking and similar problems for elements with radioactive decay. The same equation can basically be used for both situations, you can change letters if it seems to make more sense that way.

The lnx and e^x functions can counteract each other, much like arcsinx and sinx.

There is another equation for half life specifically, but it’s easy enough to get to an equation with that idea using the original equation and therefore not memorizing more equations than necessary.