Tangent to a Curve
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Show the tangent line at to the curve
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Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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— coefficient of
— coefficient of
— coefficient of
—
-coordinate of the tangent point
Snapshot 1: The tangent line at for
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Snapshot 2: The tangent line at for
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Snapshot 3: The tangent line at
InlineMath=-1 for
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