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In this problem, we have y equals the sign of one -half x plus pi over four.
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Thinking about the pieces here, we're going to start looking by analyzing the amplitude.
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The amplitude here is going to be the absolute value of the number multiplying by the outside of the function.
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In this particular case, it's going to be one, which means it's going to go up one and down one from my midline.
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And traditionally, a positive sign curve will look like this.
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So it's going to start on the midline, go up, midline, down, midline.
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So this will be a pretty traditional amplitude for this new graph as well.
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Looking at the period, the period is calculated by taking 2 pi and dividing by the frequency.
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The frequency is the coefficient of x here, which is this 1⁄2.
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So i'm going to be doing 2 pi divided by 1⁄2, which is the same as 2 pi times 2, which in this case is 4 pi.
01:00
So the distance from the starting point to the last point will be 4 pi for one cycle.
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Finally, we're going to take a look at the phase shift.
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And in this case, it will be the opposite movement of what's happening inside of the function.
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And so in this case, it's negative pi over four.
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So we're going to go to the left, pi over four.
01:21
Now, to get a good graph here, because i'm not really sure where i'm getting a shift to the left and i am changing its period, and what i do is i like to start by putting my x -axis in and putting one, two, three, four, five equally spaced tick marks so that my picture looks pretty and i can get it all matching up nicely.
01:42
Then i like to use a transformation table to label my intervals.
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Once i have my intervals labeled, then i can put my y -axis in.
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So in this case, i'm looking at a traditional sign curve.
01:53
So if i didn't change it at all, according to the unit circle, it would be 0 ,0, pi.
02:00
Over 2 -1, high, pi -0, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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And that will give us my pattern of what's going on.
02:11
Now, anything on the outside, multiplying times the trig and adding or subtracting to the trig will affect my output...