Question: Show that the deflection curve of the cable discussed in Example 7.15 reduces to Eq. (4) in Example 7.14 when the hyperbolic cosine function is

Show that the deflection curve of the cable discussed in Example 7.15 reduces to Eq. (4) in Example 7.14 when the hyperbolic cosine function is expanded in terms of a series and only the first two terms are retained. (The answer indicates that the catenary’s may be replaced by a parabola in the analysis of problems in which the sag is small. In this case, the cable weight is assumed to be uniformly distributed along the horizontal.)

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