Trigonometry Examples

$y = 2 \sin (π x + 3) - 2$

Step 1

Use the form $a \sin (b x - c) + d$ to find the variables used to find the amplitude, period, phase shift, and vertical shift.

$a = 2$

$b = π$

$c = - 3$

$d = - 2$

Step 2

Find the amplitude $| a |$ .

Amplitude: $2$

Step 3

Find the period using the formula $\frac{2 π}{| b |}$ .

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Step 3.1

Find the period of $2 \sin (π x + 3)$ .

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Step 3.1.1

The period of the function can be calculated using $\frac{2 π}{| b |}$ .

$\frac{2 π}{| b |}$

Step 3.1.2

Replace $b$ with $π$ in the formula for period.

$\frac{2 π}{| π |}$

Step 3.1.3

$π$ is approximately $3.14159265$ which is positive so remove the absolute value

$\frac{2 π}{π}$

Step 3.1.4

Cancel the common factor of $π$ .

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Step 3.1.4.1

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{2 π}{π}$

Step 3.1.4.2

Divide $2$ by $1$ .

$2$

Step 3.2

Find the period of $- 2$ .

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Step 3.2.1

The period of the function can be calculated using $\frac{2 π}{| b |}$ .

$\frac{2 π}{| b |}$

Step 3.2.2

Replace $b$ with $π$ in the formula for period.

$\frac{2 π}{| π |}$

Step 3.2.3

$π$ is approximately $3.14159265$ which is positive so remove the absolute value

$\frac{2 π}{π}$

Step 3.2.4

Cancel the common factor of $π$ .

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Step 3.2.4.1

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{2 π}{π}$

Step 3.2.4.2

Divide $2$ by $1$ .

$2$

Step 3.3

The period of addition/subtraction of trig functions is the maximum of the individual periods.

$2$

Step 4

Find the phase shift using the formula $\frac{c}{b}$ .

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Step 4.1

The phase shift of the function can be calculated from $\frac{c}{b}$ .

Phase Shift: $\frac{c}{b}$

Step 4.2

Replace the values of $c$ and $b$ in the equation for phase shift.

Phase Shift: $\frac{- 3}{π}$

Step 4.3

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

Phase Shift: $- \frac{3}{π}$

Step 5

List the properties of the trigonometric function.

Amplitude: $2$

Period: $2$

Phase Shift: $- \frac{3}{π}$ ( $\frac{3}{π}$ to the left)

Vertical Shift: $- 2$

Step 6