types of funtions

**Rimas** · Sep 15th 2008, 05:04 PM

i am having trouble filling out the chart of basic functions that includes periodic and one by one

i dont understand the concept

X^2
X^3
Abs(x)
Sin(x)
Cos(x)
Tan(x)
Sec(x)
2^x
Logbase 2 of x
1/x
Sq rt of X
sq rt of a^2- x^2

**Jhevon** · Sep 15th 2008, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by Rimas

i am having trouble filling out the chart of basic functions that includes periodic and one by one

i dont understand the concept

X^2
X^3
Abs(x)
Sin(x)
Cos(x)
Tan(x)
Sec(x)
2^x
Logbase 2 of x
1/x
Sq rt of X
sq rt of a^2- x^2

i suppose you mean one to one?

intuitively, a function is periodic if it has a repeating pattern, forever. sin(x) is obviously one. it's period is $2 \pi$ . you have the same pattern between $[0, 2 \pi]$ repeating forever.

slightly more formally, a function $f(x)$ is called periodic, if $f(x) = f(x + kT)$ for some integer $k$ . we call $T$ the period.

for example, going back to sine. $\sin x = \sin (x + 2k \pi)$ , the period is $T = 2 \pi$ . any multiple of the period and you get back the same value. so $\sin x = \sin (x + 2 \pi) = \sin (x + 6 \pi) = \sin (x - 12 \pi)$ etc

a function is called one-to-one if $f(x_1) = f(x_2) \implies x_1 = x_2$ . or equivalently, $x_1 \ne x_2 \implies f(x_1) \ne f(x_2)$ for $x_1, x_2 \in \text{dom}(f)$

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