• Curve for chain in NON-homogeneous gravitational field?

    From Gene Partlow@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 18 02:45:51 2017
    What would be the equation and curve for a perfect chain suspended in an non-homogeneous gravitational field, analogous to the catenary or
    hyperbolic
    cosine, which would be the locus taken in a homogeneous field?

    Eg: As an example, consider the curve taken by such a chain suspended
    from the tops of a pair of ~five-thousand-mile-high towers, which have
    bases
    separated by, say, a few thousand miles distance, on a static Earth.

    Thanks,
    Gene

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