The red curve above is a “transformation” of the green one. It has been “translated” (or shifted) four units to the right. A translation is a change in position resulting from addition or subtraction, one that does not rotate or change the size or shape in any way.
Transformations are often easiest to analyze by focusing on how the location of specific points on the curve have changed. In the image above, the point on the green curve “corresponds” to point
on the red curve. By this we mean that the transformation has moved point
to
.
Horizontal Translations
In looking at the coordinates of the two corresponding points identified in the graph above, you can see that Continue reading Function Transformations: Translation