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Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Tangent Lines

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This is a detailed site concerning tangent lines to curves. The site gives the limiting definition of the slope of the tangent. This site has a link to a discussion and animation of the approaching secant line, a java applet for the numeric approaximation of the tangent, and more.

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tangent, tangent lines

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slope of a tangent line, tangent slope, tangents, visual calculus, approaching the tangent, approximating the tangent, slope of a tangent line to the curve, tangent equation, tangent line

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Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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