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Slope of a Curve A number which is used to indicate the steepness of a curve at a particular point.The slope of a curve at a point is defined to be the slope of the tangent line. Thus the slope of a curve at a point is found using the derivative

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You can easily determine the slope of a line by calculating Rise divided by Run, where rise is the change in the y coordinate and run is the change in the x coordinate. You can't get the slope of a curve per se; you can find the instantaneous slope for any given point along the curve, but that is more complicated.

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