How do you approximate the slope of a curve? In the PR book it says the line tangent to the curve, but I don’t understand how that works.
Anyone care to show me a sketch or diagram of how to do it?
Thank you so much.
Found it, to anyone else who is havin problems, this does a good job explaining it:
A good way to approximate slope is to pick two points on the curve relatively close to each other, and compute that slope.
I don’t really like the example in the link you posted, because we have to know what points B and C are, which is not usually the case.
I assume you haven’t taken calculus, but if you have, you will know what a derivative is and how to find derivatives of different types of functions.
@MITer94 Thank you so much!
This is way more helpful. I really appreciate it.