How do perform the logarithm on a product term that has a power term?

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I have this term $ \prod_{i=0}^N(u_i-x_i-\tau)^{-3/2} $ and on which I need to take the logarithm.

Applying the log make the $\prod$ to $\sum$.

What bothers me is the power $^{-3/2} $.

Will it be

(a) $-3/2\sum_{i=0}^N (u_i-x_i-\tau)$ or will it be

(b) $\sum_{i=0}^N (u_i-x_i-\tau)^{-3/2}$

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Neither of them: if $u_i-x_i-\tau > 0$ for each $i=0,\dots,N$, then

$$\log \prod_{i=0}^N(u_i-x_i-\tau)^{-3/2} = \sum_{i=0}^N \log (u_i-x_i-\tau)^{-3/2} = -\frac{3}{2}\sum_{i=0}^N \log (u_i-x_i-\tau).$$