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Horizontal Shifts

A similar shift can be carried out in the other direction. What does y = f(x - a) look like? This simply picks the graph of y = f(x) up and moves it a distance a to the right from the vertical or y axis. Note that the sign is different from the above case.



Vector Calculus
Wed Sep 17 14:50:13 MST 1997