Deriving displacement functions 2-10 to 2-13 for shape functions in FEM

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Hmmm, the title should read displacement functions. The thing is I know that [itex]\xi[/itex] should run between 0 and 1 (because [itex]\xi = x/L)[/itex]. But why is the displacement: [tex]y(0) = <br /> \theta_1 \cdot L[/tex] shouldn't there be a correction for the second angle? Moreover why is the displacement at the end zero e.g. why is y(1) =0?

By the way the picture ends like this:

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4352/31333995.png

ands starts like this:

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4606/99014438.png
 
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