Strings, chains, and ropes

SIAM Review

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 771-781

  Yong, Darryl ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic one dimensional continua; Hanging chain; Jump rope; Partial differential equations; Wave equation

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

DERIVATION; ELASTIC CONTINUA; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONTINUA;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 33751413806     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050641910     Document Type: Article

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