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  2. Tangent lines to circles - Wikipedia

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    k = 1 is the tangent line to the right of the circles looking from c 1 to c 2. k = −1 is the tangent line to the right of the circles looking from c 2 to c 1. The above assumes each circle has positive radius. If r 1 is positive and r 2 negative then c 1 will lie to the left of each line and c 2 to the right, and the two tangent lines will ...

  3. Heun's method - Wikipedia

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    If the tangent line at the right end point is considered (which can be estimated using Euler's Method), it has the opposite problem. [3] The points along the tangent line of the left end point have vertical coordinates which all underestimate those that lie on the solution curve, including the right end point of the interval under consideration.

  4. Polar coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The two arms are smoothly connected at the pole. If a = 0, taking the mirror image of one arm across the 90°/270° line will yield the other arm. This curve is notable as one of the first curves, after the conic sections, to be described in a mathematical treatise, and as a prime example of a curve best defined by a polar equation.

  5. Tangent - Wikipedia

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    There are two possible reasons for the method of finding the tangents based on the limits and derivatives to fail: either the geometric tangent exists, but it is a vertical line, which cannot be given in the point-slope form since it does not have a slope, or the graph exhibits one of three behaviors that precludes a geometric tangent.

  6. Derivative - Wikipedia

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    The ratio in the definition of the derivative is the slope of the line through two points on the graph of the function ⁠ ⁠, specifically the points (, ()) and (+, (+)). As h {\displaystyle h} is made smaller, these points grow closer together, and the slope of this line approaches the limiting value, the slope of the tangent to the graph of ...

  7. Analytic geometry - Wikipedia

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    Informally, it is a line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve. More precisely, a straight line is said to be a tangent of a curve y = f(x) at a point x = c on the curve if the line passes through the point (c, f(c)) on the curve and has slope f ' (c) where f ' is the derivative of f.

  8. Euler method - Wikipedia

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    Then, from the differential equation, the slope to the curve at can be computed, and so, the tangent line. Take a small step along that tangent line up to a point A 1 . {\displaystyle A_{1}.} Along this small step, the slope does not change too much, so A 1 {\displaystyle A_{1}} will be close to the curve.

  9. Envelope (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The zero level set F(t 0,(x,y)) = 0 gives the equation of the tangent line to the parabola at the point (t 0,t 0 2). The equation t 2 – 2tx + y = 0 can always be solved for y as a function of x and so, consider + = Substituting = / gives the ODE