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The equation for a tangent to a circle is y-b=m(x-a). Then to calculate the y-intercept we can substitute the tangent point in the equation y=mx+c with your recently calculated gradient m. The gradient is the difference in the y co-ordinates/ difference in the x co-ordinates.
We can either differentiate the curve (very basically you time the coefficient of each term with the power of x and take one off the power) and the substitute the tangent point into the equation or you can draw a tangent line from the point and calculate the gradient using 2 points on the line. To get a tangent line in the standard form of y=mx+c (where m is the gradient and c is the y-intercept) we first need to find the gradient. Most of the curves you will see through GCSE and A-Level are polynomials.
Let's answer each one of these parts in turn:įirstly how to find the tangent of a curve.
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