Can we solve it symbolical?
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Can we solve it symbolical?
There is a chain on the wall. What should be its length S so that the force F is minimal.
Below is one of the numerical solutions of the problem.
Is it possible to find an analytical solution. Not 1.258 but one expression!
Attach file Mathcad 15
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The equation I supplied is about as far as one can reasonably go symbolically. The equation tanh(k) = 1/k doesn't have a closed form analytical solution as far as I know, so further calculations must be done numerically.
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Here's your symbolic solution Val (though I've used a different notation from your original):
See the attached for the derivation.
Alan
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Thanks, Alan!
If the equation coth(k) = k has not the symbolical solution than our problem about optimal chain has not the symbolical solution.
True?
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The equation I supplied is about as far as one can reasonably go symbolically. The equation tanh(k) = 1/k doesn't have a closed form analytical solution as far as I know, so further calculations must be done numerically.
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