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Math 444/487 Geometry Week 8

Monday 11/14 -Friday 11/18

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  1. Week 1: 9/28-30

  2. Week 2: 10/03-07

  3. Week 3: 10/10-14

  4. Week 4: 10/17-21

  5. Week 5: 10/24-28

  6. Week 6: 10/31-11/04

  7. Week 7: 11/07-11

  8. Week 8: 11/14-18

  9. Week 9: 11/21-25

  10. Week 10: 11/28-12/02

  11. Week 11: 12/05-09

  12. Week 12. 12/12

Written Assignments due this week

444 Monday 11/14

  • Definition and properties of glide reflections
  • Translations and glide reflections are isometries because compositions of isometries are isometries.
  • Fundamental Theorems 11 and 12.

Link to Class #21 Page

444 Wednesday 11/16

  • Composition of transformations in general -- order, associativity, and inverses.
  • Proof of the nature of triple line reflections (problems 17-19, proving the missing part of Theorem 12).
  • Composing two rotations. (Theorems 23 and 24)

Link to Class #22 Page

487 Wednesday 11/16 Lab 8

  • Practice from 2.1 and 2.4.
  • Algebra of translations.
  • Algebra of half-turns.

444 Friday 11/18

  • Concept of a group.
  • All isometries form a group.
  • Translations form a group.  Also rotations + translations.
  • Half-turns do not form a group.
  • Line reflections do not form a group, nor do glide reflections.
  • Semi-quiz B today.

Link to Class #23 Page