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Mistake Master · AP Precalculus · Unit 3 · Step-Through Animation

Four Dials, and One of Them Lies

You'll learnto see how each of four constants reshapes the parent sine wave, one at a time.

Every sinusoid is the parent sine wave with four dials turned, one for each feature of the picture. Two of the four are not what they look like, and this is where the marks go. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · AMPLITUDE · MIDLINE · PERIOD · PHASE · v3

two of the four dials are not what they look like
Before you start
What you're looking at
The parent sine wave, and the four constants that can be turned to reshape it.
The question
Turn one dial while the other three hold: what does it do to the wave?
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