Show that the deflection curve of the cable discussed in Example 7.15 reduces to Eq. (4) in

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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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