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