#Does my working out check out?

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waxen umbra
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Where did you get equation 1 and what do the parameters represent?
(This is rhetorical, by the way. I do know the answer and you have made a mistake.)
Edit for posterity just in case: I was wrong here.

waxen umbra
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Where did you get this?

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Oh, my bad. I was wrong.

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You're good.

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I was expecting this formula to show up in factored form.

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I really don't like when it's written this way, but it's fine

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A good habit, by the way, is to plug in a few sample values

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like 0.01 and 0.02

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Because you know what they should give, and it's pretty easy to check if it works out.

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I would write it as sin(k (x-d))

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because then d is the amount that it is actually shifted on the graph

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So that would be sin(100pi(x-.005))

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yeah, that's my preferred form

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But you should use the one that makes sense to you

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I mean, I certainly understand and can use both. But it takes me a moment to think through it the other way

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You want to shift it by a quarter of one period

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one period is .02

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so you take one quarter of that

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d=0.02/4

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Yeah

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you're shifting the sine wave before compressing it

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I like to compress first and then shift

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but there's no right way

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You're welcome. Sorry for my early mistake.

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