October 23, 2021
US/Eastern timezone

The Catenary

Oct 23, 2021, 3:15 PM
5m

Speaker

Prof. Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech Department of Physics)

Description

The catenary is the shape of a string of uniform linear mass density hung between two points. I will demonstrate that this shape is given by the graph of a hyperbolic cosine.

Primary author

Prof. Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech Department of Physics)

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