Basic animation: Turning a secant line into a tangent line

Let's say we want to animate a secant line to a curve at a point turning into a tangent line as [Graphics:../Images/index_gr_1.gif].  Now, you could make a really fancy version of this that does everything automatically for you (try it once you get the hang of things), but let's set this up step by step.

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