# Exponents and surds notes

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- [Laws of exponents and rational exponents](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/exponents-and-surds/laws-of-exponents-and-rational-exponents) — Laws of Exponents with Rational Exponents In Grade 10 you worked with integer exponents. Grade 11 extends this to rational exponents (fractions as exponents). This powerful idea connects exponents to…
- [Surds and solving exponential equations](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/exponents-and-surds/surds-and-solving-exponential-equations) — Operations on Surds and Solving Exponential Equations A surd is an irrational number expressed as a root that cannot be simplified to a rational number. Working with surds is essential in Technical…

## Other Technical Mathematics topics

- [Analytical geometry](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/analytical-geometry)
- [Logarithms](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/logarithms)
- [Equations and inequalities](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/equations-and-inequalities)
- [Nature of roots](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/nature-of-roots)
- [Euclidean geometry](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/euclidean-geometry)
- [Functions and graphs](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/functions-and-graphs)
- [Trigonometry](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/trigonometry)
- [Circles, angles and angular movement](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/circles-angles-and-angular-movement)
- [Finance, growth and decay](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/finance-growth-and-decay)
- [Mensuration](https://www.hlayiso.com/grade-11/technical-mathematics/notes/mensuration)

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