Sentences with phrase «of a tangent»

I think we're going on a little bit of a tangent here.

This 6 - page (23 + question) test offers a brief, helpful review of calculus concepts, including instantaneous rate of change, max / min (extrema), derivatives, concavity, implicit differentiation, graphing, equation of tangent lines, and more... Also, there is a detailed answer key....

Mark Moreau: Yeah, basically if we can just take a little bit of tangent here, when you have to get mortgage insurance in place, it's done on a premium basis which is a percentage of the total amount of the mortgage that's going to go out.

This calculus study guide will helps students differentiate between the height of a function, the average height of the function, the slope of a tangent line, the slope of a secant line, the area under a curve, and the change in height between two points.

We talk about both games, but also go off on a number of tangents about a ton of other stuff too.

We're going off on something of a tangent here, as most Apple users aren't going to get the utmost support out of Samsung's Tizen watch.

Duration measures the first derivative of the price / yield curve - the slope of a tangent line.

Their superchat goes off on all sorts of tangents, including Scott meeting Stan Lee.

Velocity and time graphs and estimating acceleration using gradients of tangents on graph 9.

Going off at even more of a tangent into the Championship, I was surprised to note that of the 27 players featured in the encounter between former European champions Villa and Forest only 9 were English.

After talking up the Bing and BlackBerry relationship, Ballmer went on a bit of a tangent in his company's favor, InformationWeek said.

One strategy was to develop the needed coordinate system by means of tangent flats.

the law of the continuous movement by which the curve is generated) to the equation of the tangent giving its instantaneous direction.

Perhaps instead of the tangent of whether or not to vaccinate people could focus on what the article was actually about.

The Pirate Party, for example, might define it in rather a different way to The Labour Party UK, or Partido Del La Red of Argentina, or perhaps even The Green Party... The issue addressed, however, was not authoritativeness, but freedom of speech, so your answer has gone off on something of a tangent unrelated to my question.

Hodges may be more fond of tangents than linear narrative, but no matter.

In «The Laboratory» we see how theoretical and practical laboratory work became the foundation for later developments in instrumentation and technology; for instance, the movement of the tangent galvanometer became the operating principle behind numerous scientific instruments, and new discoveries about electricity became integral to advances in communications.

David's professional and love - life struggles take the movie down a series of tangents that may distract him from his mother's illness (while featuring and creating problems of their own), but they mainly end up distracting from the core of the story.

It's obviously not playing the same sport as J.K. Rowling's books in terms of scope, but that turns out to be a virtue, resulting in a straight - forward plot with none of the tangents that bogged down «The Golden Compass» and even the more recent «Harry Potter» movies.

Writer and director, Joss Whedon, is caught between managing a lukewarm core story while pleasing the demands of tangents associated with future Marvel blockbusters (and Marvel Studios head honcho, Kevin Feige, and his Disney overlords).

The Philosophy of Time Travel, by Roberta Sparrow, is a book Richard Kelly made up that explains the theory of Tangent and Primary Universes that drives both movies.

Power Point presentation, 7 slides, Explaining how to find the gradient of the tangent at any point on the function, based on IB Mathematics Higher Level Syllabus.

And I'm rapt to bits to reveal that not only does this stand - alone version of Tangent have a gorgeous new cover, but that it's FREE at most eBook retailers!

In any given piece, journalists and essayists can tell many stories, go off on dozens of tangents, while gradually concentrating on what all of their research, ideas and interviews mean.

We go off on a bunch of tangents for this show, but it actually works out well!

Lots of tangents and baseless arguments that lead to very funny discussions!

I'm sure we'll go off on plenty of tangents and run long anyway!

Anyway, enough of that tangent, let's take a look at Nintendo's first Pokémon game.

I came to study the Wounded Knee Massacre via the unlikeliest of tangents: I heard about it in Bioshock Infinite, a big - budget videogame in which the racist inhabitants of a floating city named Columbia present an astonishingly «1870s» view of the event:

A life of tangents is an appropriate description for Alfred Leslie, not only because his form of Abstract Expressionism was more geometric than his peers, but also because he was constantly reinventing his artistic practice.

InLiquid presents the final installment of TangenT's RedAct series at The Icebox Project Space and Grey Area at Crane Arts from January 14 — 29, 2016.

Cowie was drawn to the challenge of embodying the idea of the tangent, of conversation threads and the edges and intersections of communication.

Without going into too much of a tangent (feel free to inquire by email if you are curious), I would like to suggest that beliefs, by definition common usage, are antithetical to science, and that if we want to remove the polarization of political and policy elements, we must remove subjective terms like «believe» from the conversation.

Defensive driving Oregon certificate of completion Upon successful completion of the Tangent Oregon online defensive driving school, you will receive a completion certificate to give to the Tangent Oregon court that issued the traffic ticket or to your insurance carrier.

eduarrow Video Presentation: In this video we cover properties of a circle, secant and tangent, number of tangents to a circle and results on tange...

Take this as some sort of tangent to Melissa's recent post about why modern tomatoes taste like cardboard: Research coming out of the University of Barcelona shows that organic tomatoes have higher levels of antioxidants than chemically - grown ones.

A bit of a tangent here, but I think the reason that a lot of moms - to - be don't receive cloth diapers off their gift registry is that the gift givers feel like 1 - 2 diapers isn't «enough».

I am going to go off on a bit of a tangent here, but, I am a bit disturbed by the talk of creating assignments for our students that require their use of this technology as well.