Solving Graph a

Radical Eqn’s Square Root

Graphically Function

Radical
Functions

Graph the
Square Root of Transformations
a Function

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2.1 RADICAL FUNCTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS

What does square root mean?

2.1 Can you square root?

How can you estimate a square root

if the value is not a perfect square?

Write the equation for a square root function.f ( x )  x

Write the equation for the square root of a function.
How are these the same? Different? y f x
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 What falls faster a brick or a marble?
Galileo Galilei pondered this question
more than 400 years ago.
He theorized that the rate of falling
objects depends on air resistance, not on
mass. The result was they fell at the same rate.

Leaning Tower
Galileo of Pisa
For objects falling near the surface of Earth, the function d = 5t2
approximately models the time, t, in seconds, for an object to
fall a distance, d, in metres, if the resistance caused by air can
be ignored. Express time as a function of distance.

d  5t 2 , d d d
 t2,  t t
5 5 5
Is this correct?
Math 30-1 Restriction on the domain.
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 Graphing y  x
Key Points

x y Are there any restrictions on the domain?

x | x  0
0 0
1 1
4 2
9 3

Range
 y | y  0
x- intercept
y- intercept
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Transformations of the Radical Function
y x y  k  a b( x  h)
Which parameters affect the domain? Range?

Use a table of values to sketch the graph of y  x  3

y x  y  x3 Domain?
x y x y x | x  3  0
0 0 -3 0 x | x  3
1 1 -2 1
Range?
4 2 1 2
 y | y  0
9 3 6 3
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 y x  y  x3

Translate the key points 3 units left.

Invariant Points?
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 Sketch the Graph using Transformations
F
y x  y  2 x  1  3

R
S
T
Domain
x | x  1

Range
 y | y  3 Invariant Points?
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Consider the function
y = f(x)

Write an equation for the function in the form:

ya x y  bx
1 1
y x y x
2 4
Show algebraically that the two equations are equivalent.
2
1 1
y   x y x
2 4
1 1
y x y x
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 Match each graph with its function equation

y  x4 y  x 4 y  x  2 1 y  2  x 1

Domain, Range, Invariant Points

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Write the function equation from the graph in the form

y  a b( x  h)  k

2 Horizontal translation 7 units right

Vertical translation 3 units up

y  a b( x  7)  3

Vertical Stretch Horizontal Stretch

Each vertical distance is 2 times Each horizontal distance is ¼
the corresponding distance for times the corresponding distance
y x a=2 for y  x

y  2 ( x  7)  3 y  4( x  7)  3
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Assignment:

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1c,d, 2a, 3, 4a,b, 5a,b,f, 6, 8, 9

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