
Tangent Plane
Let be any point of a surface function
. Then the surface has a nonvertical tangent plane at
with equation
See also
Normal Vector,Plane,Tangent,Tangent Line,Tangent Space,Tangent VectorExplore with Wolfram|Alpha

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