A weighted catenary (also flattened catenary, was defined by William Rankine as transformed catenary[1] and thus sometimes called Rankine curve[2]) is a catenary curve, but of a special form. A "regular" catenary has the equation
for a given value of a. A weighted catenary has the equation
and now two constants enter: a and b.
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