How Do You Graph a Glide Reflection?

How Do You Graph a Glide Reflection?

Note:

When you graph a composition of two transformations, you have to be very careful to perform all the steps in the right order! Watch this tutorial to see how to graph a glide reflection.

Keywords:

  • problem
  • graph
  • glide
  • reflection
  • isometry
  • translation
  • composition
  • isometries

Background Tutorials

  • Describe and perform transformations of figures in a plane using coordinate notation

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      What is a Reflection?

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