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Isometries

This document defines and describes different types of isometries: translations, reflections, glide reflections, rotations, and products of isometries. It explains that an isometry moves a geometric object without changing its size or shape. Translations involve sliding movements, reflections involve flipping across a line, and rotations move an object around a pivot point. The document also discusses laws of isometries like direct and opposite transformations and how products of reflections can result in rotations, translations, or glide reflections.

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Isometries

This document defines and describes different types of isometries: translations, reflections, glide reflections, rotations, and products of isometries. It explains that an isometry moves a geometric object without changing its size or shape. Translations involve sliding movements, reflections involve flipping across a line, and rotations move an object around a pivot point. The document also discusses laws of isometries like direct and opposite transformations and how products of reflections can result in rotations, translations, or glide reflections.

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ISOMETRIES

Shaquille Michael S. Naguit


ISOMETRIES
The word isometry is used to describe the process of
moving a geometric object from one place to another
without changing its size or shape.
Types of Isometries
TRANSLATION
A translation is a type of isometry where the change of the
pre-image occurs through a sliding movement on a plane. It
may be a horizontal position change towards the right or left.
It can also be vertical movement upwards or downwards.
REFLECTION
This is defined as a change in an image
or object through a flipping or folding
action across a line.
GLIDE REFLECTION
Type of isometry that is consists of a
reflection followed by a translation
movement on the post-image
ROTATION
Rotation moves an image or object by
fixing it on a referenced pivot point and
then moving at a certain angle measure.
This pivot point is called a roto center.
Laws of Isometries

DIRECT OPPOSITE
DIRECT
is a type of transformation that preserves
orientation, on top of being an isometry requiring it
to keep all the sides of a shape the same length.
Laws of Isometries

DIRECT OPPOSITE
OPPOSITE

 keeps the side lengths of a shape the


same whilst reversing the order of each
vertex.
Products of Isometries
The product of two reflections that
have the lines of reflection intersect at
a point O is a rotation with center O
through an angle twice the size of the
angle between the two lines of
reflection.
Recall that O denotes the point of intersection of the lines of reflection of S
and T.
It suffices to show that PO  is congruent to P'O and that <POP' is congruent to
the double of the angle between the lines of reflection.
The product of two reflections that
have parallel lines of reflection is a
translation in the direction
perpendicular to the two lines and by a
length twice the distance between the
two lines of reflection.
It suffices to show that PP' is perpendicular to both lines of
reflection and that if QQ' is a line segment with Q on one reflection
line and Q' on the other  and QQ" perpendicular to the line, then 
PP' is congruent to the double of QQ'.
The product of three reflections
is either a reflection or a glide
reflection.
Holding the angle between the first and second lines of reflection
fixed, rotate the pair about the point O until the second line
coincides with the third line of reflection.
So the product on the three lines is the same as the reflection on
the rotated first line.

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