Activity 5: Cardboard, White Chart Paper, Ruler, Coloured Pens, Adhesive, Pencil, Eraser, Cutter, Nails and Thin Wires
Activity 5: Cardboard, White Chart Paper, Ruler, Coloured Pens, Adhesive, Pencil, Eraser, Cutter, Nails and Thin Wires
Activity 5: Cardboard, White Chart Paper, Ruler, Coloured Pens, Adhesive, Pencil, Eraser, Cutter, Nails and Thin Wires
METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION
1. Take a cardboard of suitable dimensions, say, 30 cm × 30 cm.
2. On the cardboard, paste a white chart paper of size 25 cm × 25 cm (say).
3. On the paper, draw two lines, perpendicular to each other and name them
X′OX and YOY′ as rectangular axes [see Fig. 5].
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4. Graduate the axes approximately as shown in Fig. 5.1 by taking unit on
X-axis = 1.25 times the unit of Y-axis.
5. Mark approximately the points
π π π π π π
,sin , ,sin , ... , ,sin in the coordinate plane and at each
6 6 4 4 2 2
point fix a nail.
6. Repeat the above process on the other side of the x-axis, marking the points
–π –π – π –π –π –π
,sin , ,sin , ... , ,sin approximately and fix nails
6 6 4 4 2 2
on these points as N1′, N2′, N3′, N4′. Also fix a nail at O.
7. Join the nails with the help of a tight wire on both sides of x-axis to get the
–π π
graph of sin x from to .
2 2
8. Draw the graph of the line y = x (by plotting the points (1,1), (2, 2), (3, 3), ...
etc. and fixing a wire on these points).
9. From the nails N1, N2, N3, N4, draw perpendicular on the line y = x and produce
these lines such that length of perpendicular on both sides of the line y = x
are equal. At these points fix nails, I1,I2,I3,I4.
10. Repeat the above activity on the other side of X- axis and fix nails at I1′,I2′,I3′,I4′.
11. Join the nails on both sides of the line y = x by a tight wire that will show the
graph of y = sin −1 x .
DEMONSTRATION
Put a mirror on the line y = x. The image of the graph of sin x in the mirror will
represent the graph of sin −1 x showing that sin–1 x is mirror reflection of sin x
and vice versa.
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OBSERVATION
The image of point N1 in the mirror (the line y = x) is _________.
The image of point N2 in the mirror (the line y = x) is _________.
The image of point N3 in the mirror (the line y = x) is _________.
The image of point N4 in the mirror (the line y = x) is _________.
The image of point N1′ in the mirror (the line y = x) is _________.
The image point of N′2 in the mirror (the line y = x) is _________.
The image point of N′3 in the mirror (the line y = x) is _________.
The image point of N′4 in the mirror (the line y = x) is _________.
The image of the graph of six x in y = x is the graph of _________, and the
image of the graph of sin–1x in y = x is the graph of __________.
APPLICATION
Similar activity can be performed for drawing the graphs of cos –1 x, tan −1 x , etc.
Mathematics 111
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