2.

[2 marks] A stick of length 2 is thrown into

the air with constant horizontal speed 4 m/s
and rotational speed 4 revolutions/s in a
clockwise direction. The centre of the stick
follows the parabola:
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𝑦𝑦 = 𝑝𝑝(𝑥𝑥) = 𝑥𝑥(16 − 𝑥𝑥) {0 ≤ 𝑥𝑥 ≤ 16}
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To mimic throwing the stick through the air we
begin at the origin at an angle of 45°.

(a) Find an affine transformation that maps any

point (𝑥𝑥, 𝑦𝑦) on the stick to its position at time t.

(b) Check your formula by calculating the coordinates of the (orange) top of the stick at time t = 2?

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3. [4 marks] The affine transformation T diagrammed below takes the square centred at the origin
(with vertices at (±1, ±1), rotates it and translates it.

(a) Write the transformation in the form

  x  a b   x   e 
T     = Ax + b =   y +  f  .
  y    c d    

(b) Find a single point (h, k) for which T is obtained as a

rotation about the point (h, k).

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4. [4 marks] Both circles at the right have radius 1 and the shaded circle is centred at the origin. At
time t = 0 (seconds) the flower circle begins to roll (without slipping) around the outside of the
shaded circle at constant speed, rotating counterclockwise so that it travels counterclockwise
around the shaded circle. Its speed is such that it takes exactly 4 seconds to travel right around the
circumference and return to its starting position.

(a) Construct a family of transformations

Tt(x) (0 ≤ t ≤ 4)
that map the flower circle to its position at any time.

(b) Check the correctness of your formula by using the

geometry to track the point (2, 1) over the first second, and
  2 
then calculating T1     .
 1  

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5. [6 marks] In the diagram at the right, the grid lines are
1 unit apart. Let T denote the affine transformation in R2
that maps the 4×2 shaded rectangle centred at the origin
onto the 2×4 rectangle centred at (4, 4).

(a) Use the structure theorem for affine transformations

𝑥𝑥
to find a formula for 𝑇𝑇 ��𝑦𝑦��.

(b) Suppose that over the time interval 0 ≤ t ≤ 1 every point (x, y)
moves in a straight line at constant speed to its image T(x, y).
Find an expression for the transformation Tt at time t.

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(c) It can be shown (but you don’t need to do this) that under the process of (b), the image of the
starting rectangle is always a rectangle at any time t. But there is one time t at which it is a square.
What is this time and what is the side length of the square at this time?

(d) In the process given in (b), at what time is the rectangle

a line and what is the length of the line? Make a careful
drawing of the line on the diagram.

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