INVESTIGATIVE TASK GRADE 9

An artist is making an animation film on a little bird whose body is in the shape of a parabola as shown in the figure. This bird shows different expressions, its body shapes and sizes vary according to the story. For this purpose he has taken help of computer programmer who will find appropriate equations and will use in the animation according to screen demands. So find out how these equations can be fixed by the programmer.

1 (a). (b). (c). (d).

Investigate the graph of the followings by using different values of the ,

and

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What kind of the changes you find in the features of the graph such as concavity, the position of the vertex and intercepts on the axes when you take different values of , .

and

3. 4.

Observe the patterns and generalize it for any parabolic curve. Justify your generalizations by taking examples.

Part - 2 1. Initially birds foot that is vertex of its parabolic body is initially at the point (4, 3) and chest A is at y intercept 8 in the positive direction of axis, then find its equation. Now if it jumps to a new position such that its vertex is at (7,6) then how much will be the change in its values of and . When the bird is happy then it stretches its body by a factor of two and jumps three units up Find the new equation of the birds parabolic body. 2. (a). (b). (c). Fully explain and support your answers Are your results consistent and do they make sense? Are the effects of and the same for the cubic functions?

(a)

(b)

Can you find and discuss some other real life applications of the parabolic curves.