Tuesday, 26 April 2011

More LaTeX Experiments: Transformation of Graphs

If you take a graph and transform it in various ways, here is what you get:

A reflection in the y-axis turns a graph of y=f(x) into the graph of y= f(-x).

A reflection in the x-axis turns a graph of y=f(x) into the graph of y= -f(x)

- note the difference -

A stretch of factor s in the y- direction turns the graph of y= f(x) into the graph of

y = s f(x).

A stretch of factor m in the x-direction turns the graph of y = f(x) into the graph of \[y = f(\frac{x}{m})\]

A translation by \[ \left( \frac{k}{l} \right) \] turns the graph of y = f(x) into the graph of y = f(x-k) + l

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