Secant and Tangent Lines

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This Demonstration illustrates the connection between the secant line and the tangent line at a point on a curve. You can vary the point of tangency and the difference of the values of the two points defining the secant line.

Contributed by: Joshua Fritz, Angela Sharp, and Chad Pierson (September 2007)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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