Translations and Compressions

An applet to use to develop intuition about compressions and translations of functions. Drag the values of a,b,c and d with the sliders to see how each changes the origininal function.

Try to match the red Shifted function to the blue Target Function.

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Based on a Geogebra applet by Scott May

John Maharry, 4/1/2009, Created with GeoGebra