A geometric progression is a sequence in which each term is derived by multiplying or dividing the preceding term by a fixed number called the common ratio. E.g., the height to which a ball rises in each successive bounce follows a geometric progression. The sequence 4, -2, 1,... is a Geometric Progression (GP) for which (-1/2) is the common ratio. We can use the concept to find an arbitrary term, a finite or infinite sum of the series, and apply them in various contexts, including some difficult problems.
The general form of a GP is a, ar, ar2, ar3 and so on. Thus nth term of a GP series is Tn = arn-1, where a = first term and r = common ratio = Tm/Tm-1.
If the common ratio is:
Negative: the result will alternate between positive and negative.
Greater than 1: there will be an exponential growth towards infinity (positive).
Less than -1: there will be an exponential growth towards infinity (positive and negative).
Between 1 and -1: there will be an exponential decay towards zero.
When three quantities are in GP, the middle one is called as the geometric mean of the other two. If a, b and c are three quantities in GP and b is the geometric mean of a and c i.e.
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