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Historical Activities for the Calculus Classroom
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Curve Drawing Then and Now
Tangent Lines Then and Now
- Apollonius' Construction of Tangent to Parabola
- Apollonius' Construction of Tangents to Ellipses
- Apollonius' Construction of Tangents to Ellipses
- Apollonius' method for constructing tangent lines to conics
- Constructing tangent line to parabola with Roberval's Method
- Constructing tangent line to ellipse with Roberval's Method
- Tangent line to hyperbola using Roberval's Method
- Tangent line of cycloid using Roberval's method
- Constructing tangent lines to Epicycloids
- Descartes' Method of Tangents
Optimization Problems Then and Now