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Tangent Line Visualization

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A Visualization of the Tangent Line

Move the point and shrink and change the width of the secant line to see the secant line approximate the tangent line.  The tangent line is shown in blue and the secant line is shown in red.

 

The secant line between the points (0.75,0.7317) and (1.25,0.3153) has slope -0.8327.

The tangent line at (1,0.5403) has slope -0.8415.

 

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    From the Left
    From the Right
    From Both Sides

 


This page titled Tangent Line Visualization is shared under a CC BY license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Larry Green.

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