Slider Exercise 2: Combined Midpoint, Rotation and Dilation Transformations

Slider Exercise 2: Combined Midpoint, Rotation and Dilation Transformations
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2016-06-30 11:52
① This example demonstrates dynamic geometric transformations controlled by sliders, combining midpoint, rotation, and dilation (homothety) effects, with connections to hyperbola and logarithmic functions. ② Core mathematical concepts include midpoint, dilation, rotation, median line, hyperbola, logarithm, and stochastic processes, highlighting the interplay between transformation geometry and function graphs. ③ Construction details: GeoGebra commands used are Midpoint, Dilate, Segment, and Rotate; objects include points A, B, C and their transformed images A', C', A'', lines f and g, and function f', all driven by slider a for dynamic variation. ④ Suitable for high school or early college students to understand composition of geometric transformations, parametric dynamic visualization, and to explore how transformations affect function graphs; also useful for teachers creating interactive instructional materials.

GeoGebra Commands & Parameters

  1. Midpoint(A, B) → C
  2. Dilate(A, If[0 < a ≤ 1, 1 - a, 0], C) → A'
  3. Segment(A, A') → f
  4. Dilate(C, If[1 < a ≤ 2, 2 - a, 0], B) → C'
  5. Segment(C, C') → g
  6. Rotate(A, If[2 < a ≤ 3, ((a - 2) * π), π], C) → A'_1
  7. Rotate(A', If[2 < a ≤ 3, ((a - 2) * π), π], C) → A''
  8. Segment(A'_1, A'') → f'