The Humber bridge has main span is
.
The height of the towers is
.
Find the arc length of the cable.
\From exercise (69):
\The arc length of the cable is
.
Substitute
and
in
.
.
Consider the function
.
Graph the function
on
.
Observe the graph:
\
.
Therefore,
.
The arc length of the cable is
.
The arc length of the cable is
.