Conventional treatments of functions start by building a rule of correspondence between x-values and y-values, typically by creating an equation of the form y = f (x). We call this a correspondence ...

Exponential growth is a pattern of data that shows greater increases with passing time, creating the curve of an exponential function.

A PHASE relation familiar to students of applied mathematics exists between a simple harmonic oscillation and its derivative. Similar relations exist between exponential functions and their ...