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Developer's Guide To Excelets/Sinex

To add a tangent line to a function graph, you must take the derivative of the function to find the slope and then perform a linear regression on three points - the point of tangency and two nearby points - to draw the tangent line. The tangent line is an independently drawn series that moves along the curve as the x-value changes, approximating the slope of the curve at that point.

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Developer's Guide To Excelets/Sinex

To add a tangent line to a function graph, you must take the derivative of the function to find the slope and then perform a linear regression on three points - the point of tangency and two nearby points - to draw the tangent line. The tangent line is an independently drawn series that moves along the curve as the x-value changes, approximating the slope of the curve at that point.

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How to add a tangent line on a function: For this to work you must have a function whose derivative can

be found. To do this you must set up three points as a new series to draw the tangent line. The tangent line is drawn by performing a linear regression on this new series. The

trace lines (- - - -) on this graph are set up independently of the tangent line as another series of data. Now here is how to set up the three points to form the tangent line. Since slope = y/x, we can find y = x*slope and the slope form the derivative of the function.

The line will move on the curve as the values of x are changed using a slider. The markers on the tangent line are then removed (see How to add the interactive point for interpolation).
Developer's Guide to Excelets/Sinex

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