Answers to the questions in the tutorial of sine function are presented. Question: use the scrollbar to set a=1,b=1,c=0 and d=0. Write down f(x) and take note of the amplitude, period and phase shift of f(x)? Now change a , how does it affect the graph? The amplitude is defined as |a|. Answer: f(x) = sin(x). The amplitude should be close (in theory equal) to 1. The period should be close (in theory equal) to 2pi. The phase shift is equal to 0. As | a | changes the amplitude, which is the maximum value of f(x), changes. In fact this maximum value is equal to | a |. Question: Set a=1,c=0,d=0 and change b. Find the period from the graph and compare it to 2pi/|b|. How does b affect the graph of f(x)? The period is the horizontal distance (along the x-axis) between two points: one is the starting point of a cycle and the second is the end point of the same cycle. Answer: The measured period should be close (in theory equal) to 2pi/2. As | b | increases, the graph of f(x) is compressed. As | b | decreases, the graph of f(x) is stretched. Question: Set a=1,b=1,d=0 and change c starting from zero going slowly to positive larger values. Take note of the shift, is it left or right? Answer: The shift of the graph of f(x) is to the left. Question: Set a=1,b=1,d=0 and change c starting from zero going slowly to negative smaller values. Take note of the shift, is it left or right? Answer: The shift of the graph of f(x) is to the right. Question: repeat the above for b=2,3 and 4, measure the shift and compare it to -c/b (the phase shift). Answer: The shift of the graph of f(x) should be close (in theory equal) to -c/b. If -c/b is positive, the shift is to the left. If -c/b is negative, the shift is to the right. Question: Set a,b and c to non zero values and change d. What is the direction of the shift of the graph? Answer: As d changes, the graph of f(x) is shifted up for values of d > 0 and down for values of d < 0. More references and links on sine functions. Tutorial on Sine Functions (1)- Problems. Tutorial on Sine Functions (2)- Problems. Graph of Sine, a*sin(bx+c), Function.
Answers to the questions in the tutorial of sine function are presented.
Question: use the scrollbar to set a=1,b=1,c=0 and d=0. Write down f(x) and take note of the amplitude, period and phase shift of f(x)? Now change a , how does it affect the graph? The amplitude is defined as |a|. Answer: f(x) = sin(x). The amplitude should be close (in theory equal) to 1. The period should be close (in theory equal) to 2pi. The phase shift is equal to 0. As | a | changes the amplitude, which is the maximum value of f(x), changes. In fact this maximum value is equal to | a |.
Question: Set a=1,c=0,d=0 and change b. Find the period from the graph and compare it to 2pi/|b|. How does b affect the graph of f(x)? The period is the horizontal distance (along the x-axis) between two points: one is the starting point of a cycle and the second is the end point of the same cycle. Answer: The measured period should be close (in theory equal) to 2pi/2. As | b | increases, the graph of f(x) is compressed. As | b | decreases, the graph of f(x) is stretched.
Question: Set a=1,b=1,d=0 and change c starting from zero going slowly to positive larger values. Take note of the shift, is it left or right? Answer: The shift of the graph of f(x) is to the left. Question: Set a=1,b=1,d=0 and change c starting from zero going slowly to negative smaller values. Take note of the shift, is it left or right? Answer: The shift of the graph of f(x) is to the right. Question: repeat the above for b=2,3 and 4, measure the shift and compare it to -c/b (the phase shift). Answer: The shift of the graph of f(x) should be close (in theory equal) to -c/b. If -c/b is positive, the shift is to the left. If -c/b is negative, the shift is to the right. Question: Set a,b and c to non zero values and change d. What is the direction of the shift of the graph? Answer: As d changes, the graph of f(x) is shifted up for values of d > 0 and down for values of d < 0. More references and links on sine functions. Tutorial on Sine Functions (1)- Problems. Tutorial on Sine Functions (2)- Problems. Graph of Sine, a*sin(bx+c), Function.
Question: Set a=1,b=1,d=0 and change c starting from zero going slowly to negative smaller values. Take note of the shift, is it left or right? Answer: The shift of the graph of f(x) is to the right.
Question: repeat the above for b=2,3 and 4, measure the shift and compare it to -c/b (the phase shift). Answer: The shift of the graph of f(x) should be close (in theory equal) to -c/b. If -c/b is positive, the shift is to the left. If -c/b is negative, the shift is to the right.
Question: Set a,b and c to non zero values and change d. What is the direction of the shift of the graph? Answer: As d changes, the graph of f(x) is shifted up for values of d > 0 and down for values of d < 0. More references and links on sine functions. Tutorial on Sine Functions (1)- Problems. Tutorial on Sine Functions (2)- Problems. Graph of Sine, a*sin(bx+c), Function.
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