{"id":15505,"date":"2017-04-27T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/?p=2189799"},"modified":"2017-04-27T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:00:45","slug":"lets-do-the-shocking-physics-of-why-power-lines-sag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2017\/04\/27\/lets-do-the-shocking-physics-of-why-power-lines-sag\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Do the Shocking Physics of Why Power Lines Sag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rss_thumbnail\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PowerlinesHP_GettyImages-533791334-660x440.jpg\" alt=\"Let\u2019s Do the Shocking Physics of Why Power Lines Sag\" \/><\/div>When a cable is supported by the two ends, it will hang down a bit depending on the tension in the cable. How can you model this cable sag with a computer? The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/04\/lets-physics-power-lines-sag\/\">Let\u2019s Do the Shocking Physics of Why Power Lines Sag<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PowerlinesHP_GettyImages-533791334-660x440.jpg\" alt=\"Let&rsquo;s Do the Shocking Physics of Why Power Lines Sag\"><\/div>\n<p>When a cable is supported by the two ends, it will hang down a bit depending on the tension in the cable. How can you model this cable sag with a computer? The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/04\/lets-physics-power-lines-sag\/\">Let&rsquo;s Do the Shocking Physics of Why Power Lines Sag<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2428,239,1234,10,289,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catenary-cable","category-homework","category-numerical-model","category-physics","category-python","category-science","category-science-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15506,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions\/15506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}