can you solve problems that have exponents on a ti-83 calculator? is there a button that lets you do exponents

Question

and for calculus what kind o f calulaotr do you need is an ti-83 ok to use in a calculus class? thanks

Answer 1

exponent is the "^" sign. As for a Ti-83, it depends on your school/teacher whether it will be allowed or not. It probably will be allowed.

Answer 2

Hi,
Yes, doing exponents is straightforward. Just enter the quantity you want to raise to an exponent; then press ^, then the exponent, and press ENTER.
Examples:
1) 5 to the third power: 5^3
2) e raised to the third power:
a) Press 2ND, ex (the LN key); then enter the exponent and press ENTER. If you have a math operation in the exponent (such as 2*3), close the parentheses after the last entry.

Now for what kind of calculator you need for calculus:
It depends on what you want the calculator to do for you and, ultimately, what your professor will allow you to do on the calculator. In our school, we take a middle-of-the-road approach and teach how to solve problems by hand using the rules and techniques, but we also teach the use of a calculator and allow students to do homework and exams with a calculator. Still it varies among professors.
When it comes to doing definite integrals and derivatives, we require the student to at least write down the rule or technique that they are using.
Now, when it comes to whether the TI-83 Plus (not TI-83) will suffice:
The TI-83 Plus will graph functions of one variable, (polynomials, exponentials, radicals, rational functions, piecewise functions, greatest integer functions, and other stuff. It will find the value of a derivative at a point.
It will not do antiderivatives and it will not do derivatives in symbolic form, and it will not solve differential equations. It takes a TI-89 to do these.
A TI-83 Plus should get you through first semester calculus, maybe even second semester. But even there you are going to have to do some antiderivatives and derivatives using rules, and a TI-83 Plus won’t do those. Most professors require that you know how to use the rules anyway.
In second semester calculus, you’re going to have more of this plus more complexities, especially in the form of antiderivatives. But again it depends on whether the professor uses calculators almost exclusively or allows some use of a calculator in conjunction with showing that you understand how to solve a problem.
. In second semester calculus, you’re going to have more complexities, especially in the form of antiderivatives and possibly partial derivatives. Incidentally, I use the term antiderivatives to indicate the integration of a term that is a derivative of some function or at least can be put in that form.

Hope this helps a little.
FE

Answer 3

There is a button that looks like ^. That is the button to raise something to a power.

For example x^2 is x². x^100 is x to the 100th power.

Yes the ti-83 is a really good calculator for calculus (it is pretty much the same as the ti-84 and ti-84+).

Answer 4

go the users manual in the back of the book look up exponets as this will point you in the right direction.

To see if you can use you ti83 for calculus look in the back of the book for intergals and deritives. If hese are listed there should be no problem using it for calculus.