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Computing a tangent plane

2016-06-15

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Here you can see how to use the control over functions whose graphs are planes, as introduced in the last video, to find the tangent plane to a function graph.


How You Can Find the Tangent Plane to a Graph
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The Full Formula for the Tangent Plane
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