Question

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THESE THREE DO/WHAT THEY MEAN? Please help I really don’t get it.

Answer 1

Lemme post a quick template of some help

$\bf ~~~~~~~~~~~~\textit{function transformations} \\\\\\ % templates f(x)= A( Bx+ C)+ D \\\\ ~~~~y= A( Bx+ C)+ D \\\\ f(x)= A\sqrt{ Bx+ C}+ D \\\\ f(x)= A(\mathbb{R})^{ Bx+ C}+ D \\\\ f(x)= A sin\left( B x+ C \right)+ D \\\\ --------------------$

$\bf \bullet \textit{ stretches or shrinks horizontally by } A\cdot B\\\\ \bullet \textit{ flips it upside-down if } A\textit{ is negative}\\ ~~~~~~\textit{reflection over the x-axis} \\\\ \bullet \textit{ flips it sideways if } B\textit{ is negative}$

$\bf ~~~~~~\textit{reflection over the y-axis} \\\\ \bullet \textit{ horizontal shift by }\frac{ C}{ B}\\ ~~~~~~if\ \frac{ C}{ B}\textit{ is negative, to the right}\\\\ ~~~~~~if\ \frac{ C}{ B}\textit{ is positive, to the left}\\\\ \bullet \textit{ vertical shift by } D\\ ~~~~~~if\ D\textit{ is negative, downwards}\\\\ ~~~~~~if\ D\textit{ is positive, upwards}\\\\ \bullet \textit{ period of }\frac{2\pi }{ B}$



so f(x) - k, is simply appending a constant "k", and thus is a vertical shift by k units.

f(x+h) is changing whatever "x" was to "x+h", and therefore is shifting the function to the left by h units.

f(x-h), is about the same as before, but is doing a horizontal shift to the right by h units.