Catenary: The Hanging Chain (II)


	Catenary is formed by a hanging flexible chain, suspended at ends and carrying only its own weight.

Galileo Galilei (ca. 1600) believed that the chain would be a parabola. He wasn't right, yet he was close. Move the end points and change the length within reasonable limits, while toggling among plots of catenary, parabola and their magnified absolute difference.

Catenary (Wolfram MathWorld)

"Catenary: The Hanging Chain (II)" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CatenaryTheHangingChainII/

Contributed by: Borut Levart

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