 | George Baron - Mathematics - 1804 - 318 pages
...determine the nature of the catenaria volvens, or the figure which a perfectly flexible chain of unK form density and thickness will assume, when it revolves...which it is fastened at its extremities, in free and nongraviuting spaces. SoLUttoxs of the QUEsTIONs proposed in ARTICLE XIX. I. QUEsT. 52. Solved by E,... | |
 | W. J. C. Miller - Mathematics - 1875 - 148 pages
...constant ratio. 4425. (Proposed by CHRISTINE LADD.) — Find the nature of the catenaria volven«, or the figure which a perfectly flexible chain of...axis, to which it is fastened at its extremities, in tree and non-gravitating spaces. [This problem was proposed by Robert Adrian, of Pennsylvania, in No.... | |
 | Karen Hunger Parshall, David E. Rowe - Mathematics - 1994 - 532 pages
...challenging questions. For example, he proposed "[t]o determine the nature of the catenaria volvens, or the figure which a perfectly flexible chain of...which it is fastened at its extremities, in free and non gravitating spaces." He demonstrated that this problem reduced to that of evaluating a certain... | |
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[t]o determine the nature of the catenaria volvens, or the figure which a perfectly flexible chain of uniform density and thickness will assume, when it revolves with a constant angular velocity about an axis, to which it is fastened at its extremities,... 