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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Jhevon View Post
Excellent Ticbol! I guess I never read the question carefully enough. I have one problem thoughusually, the general equation is written as y = A*cos B(x - C) + D. here C is the horizontal shift. as you have it in your equation, C/B is the horizontal shift.

it didn't affect the answer here though, since C = 0, but it might in some other question. (or i don't know, maybe in practice it won't make much of a difference, since the value of C may be altered by the way you set up the equation or something)

Good Job though!
I see.

B(x -C) = (Bx -BC)
I called "BC" as C

The frequency B remains the same.

Using the B(x -C) is sometimes confusing. Others interpret then that C is the phase angle or horizontal shift, when, in fact, it should be "C/B".
Confucing, is it not?
Should it not be "CB"?
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