Overview transformations horizontal shifts - Online Tutor - Free Math Videos

The video tutorial explains horizontal transformations in functions, contrasting them with vertical transformations. It discusses how adding or subtracting a constant inside the function affects the graph's horizontal position. The tutorial provides examples to illustrate these concepts, emphasizing that positive values shift the graph left, while negative values shift it right. The video aims to clarify common misconceptions about the direction of shifts in horizontal transformations.

How can you determine whether a transformation is horizontal or vertical based on the function's structure?

Describe how shifting the graph to the left or right affects the coordinates of points on the graph.

What is the relationship between the position of C in the function and the direction of the shift?