Animation: Secant approaching the Tangent (applet) Paul Garrett, garrett@math.umn.edu

Animation: Secant approaching the Tangent (applet) Paul Garrett, garrett@math.umn.edu

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This is the motion-picture version of the secant lines approach the tangent to a curve, so that the slope of the tangent line is the limit of the slopes of the secant lines.

This is one of the little things I don't seem to be able to simulate at the blackboard...


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