Calculus Book: pp 95-106 Flashcards
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secant line
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- a straight line joining two points on a function. (See below.) It is also equivalent to the average rate of change, or simply the slope between two points. The average rate of change of a function between two points and the slope between two points are the same thing.
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derivative
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- In mathematics, the derivative is a way to represent rate of change, that is - the amount by which a function is changing at one given point. For functions that act on the real numbers, it is the slope of the tangent line at a point on a graph.
