Catenary vs Parabola

This has come up enough in classes that I wanted to make a sketch to investigate it. How closely related are catenaries and parabolas? Are they distinct enough that you could detect it in architecture?
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John Golden —

 
Typ materiálu
Aktivita
Klíčová slova
algebra  bridge  catenary  exploration  functions  graph  parabola 
Cílová skupina (věk)
15 – 18
Jazyk
English (United States)
 
 
Verze GeoGebry
4.0
Zobrazení
18123
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