Answer:
General Tangent
A tangent is a straight line that touches a curve in only one place. To find the equation of a tangent, you would have to
- Find the point on the curve that the tangent line touches
- Find the slope of the line at that point
- Use the slope intercept formula to find the equation of the tangent line
To find the slope, you could
- Use derivatives
- Calculate the slope using two points on the tangent line
Tangents in Trigonometry
In trigonometry, the tangent of an angle is equal to the length of the opposite side divided by the length of the adjacent side in a triangle
- tan = opposite / adjacent