The Catenary (hanging chain), how it was first solved.
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via Reddit r/learnmath thread: Some criminally underwatched math channels on youtube · 84% confidenceTells how the Bernoullis, Leibniz and Huygens solved the hanging-chain problem in 1691, and reproduces their derivation of the hyperbolic-cosine curve, correcting Galileo's parabola guess.
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The catenary (hanging chain) problem and how it was first solved.
Video by Daniel Rubin, played through YouTube's embedded player.