Functions: Power functions and root functions
Transformations of root functions
Transformations
We can transform the function in three different ways.
Transformations | Examples | |
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We shift the graph of upwards by . The new function becomes Then the origin also shifts upwards by and becomes equal . Therefore the range of the function becomes equal to . The domain does not change. |
shifting upwards by gives
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2 |
We shift the graph of to the right by . The new function becomes Then the origin also shifts to the right by and becomes equal to . Therefore the domain of the function becomes equal to . The range does not change. |
shifting to the right by gives
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3 |
We multiply the graph of by relative to the -axis. The new function becomes If , the origin does not change. Domain and range also remain the same as with the old function. When multiplying by the function reverses. The origin and the domain remain the same, but the range becomes equal to . If , then we have a reflection across the -axis of the old graph. |
multiplying by relative to the -axis gives
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The blue graph has origin , we investigave where this same point is on the green graph. On the green graph this same point lies at .
Hence, the green graph is obtained by shifting the blue graph to the right by .
Hence, we replace all occurences of in the formula of the blue graph by . This gives the following formula for the green graph:
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