Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University
Npac Reu Program: Tangent Lines
The Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University offers a fairly detailed site explaining the slope of a tangent line to a curve.
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Karl's Calculus: Derivatives: The Equation of the Tangent
This site goes through a step by step example of how to find the equation of the tangent to a curve using the derivative.