Length of a Hanging Cable
The shape of a cable hanging under its own weight and uniform horizontal tension between two power poles is a catenary. The catenary is a curve which has an equation defined by a hyperbolic cosine function and a scaling factor. The scaling factor for power cables hanging under their own weight is eq...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of South Florida
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two |
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/vol4/iss1/4 |