Sunday, December 18, 2011

Further differentiation help please?

This is equivalent to finding the angle between the lines y = x and y = 2x; the first makes an angle of 45 degrees with the horizontal, and the angle the second makes can be found by tan(theta) = 2 or theta = arctan(2). The angle between the lines is arctan(2) - 45 = 18.4 degrees.

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