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A catenary is the shape assumed by a hanging chain. More precisely, it is the solution of the following mathematical problem: of all plane curves of a fixed length joining two fixed points, which has the least potential energy in a uniform...
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In physics, the catenary is the shape of a hanging flexible chain or cable when supported at its ends and acted upon by a uniform gravitational force (its own weight). The chain is steepest near the points of suspension because this part of the chain...


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Wednesday 4thSome more things we're just not on board with: the warmed-over meat loaf that is the new New York Times Thursday Styles section. White power males swimming naked? Yuck! (We give them exactly two weeks before they publish a feature on the "shaved scrotum"...
 


 

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