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Introducing Calculus

Building blocks

A tangent is ...
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This interactivity offers the ability to explore the effect of zooming in on the graph of a function of your choice. You can show a second point, the chord between them and the tangent to the graph: start by clicking “Show triangle”.

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Last updated 05-Jul-16

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