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This blog accompanies the College Mathline television program produced by Palomar College

Here you can post a question for us or a comment about the show. You can also find information on our "real world" applications of mathematics.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

St. Louis Arch

Today we looked at some of the mathematics of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. The shape of the arch follows an inverted catenary, a shape naturally formed by a hanging chain or cable. The monument was designed from an equation based on a hyperbolic cosine function. 

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