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Uncertainty and Inequalities
This RISP, Almost Identical, is an activity designed to consolidate work on hyperbolics, exponentials, percentage error and curve sketching. Students are told that the shape of the curve formed by a chain suspended from two points is called a catenary and are asked to attempt to fit a parabola to the curve as best they can, then find the percentage error between their curve and the actual curve.
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