Talk Slides (2012-01-04.jmm): No Title

Use the laws of logarithms to rewrite the expression

$\displaystyle{\ln\!\left(\root 5 \of {xy}\right)}$

in a form that does not contain any logarithm of a product, quotient or power.

After rewriting, we have

$\displaystyle{\ln\!\left(\root 5 \of {xy}\right)=$

with constants

= and

= .