How do you graph y=4tan(pi/2t) over the interval [-2,2]?

1 Answer
Feb 18, 2017

(see below)

Explanation:

If we let theta=pi/2t
then tin[-2,2]
is equivalent to thetain[-pi,+pi]
and we know y=tan(theta), thetain[-pi,+pi] looks like:
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Replacing the horizontal axis with the t variable based scale:
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Replacing y=tan(pi/2t) with y=4tan(pi/2t)
simply pushes every y coordinate value 4 further away from the horizontal axis;
the easiest way to show this is to modify the scale along the vertical axis to 4 times their previous values:
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