Similar Circles? APS

Author:: S Sharma, Tim Brzezinski

Topic:: Circle, Similarity Transformation or Similarity

Interact with this applet for a few minutes. Then answer the questions that follow.

Questions: 1) What does this applet illustrate about any circle with respect to any other circle? 2) How do the dynamics you saw (translation by vector & dilation about a point) help confirm your response to (1)?

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