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    In physics and mathematics, a brachistochrone curve (from Ancient Greek βράχιστος χρόνος (brákhistos khrónos) 'shortest time'), or curve of fastest descent...
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    the acceleration of gravity. The tautochrone curve is related to the brachistochrone curve, which is also a cycloid. It was in the left hand try-pot of...
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  • u'}}=C\,.} An example of an application of the Beltrami identity is the brachistochrone problem, which involves finding the curve y = y ( x ) {\displaystyle...
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    circle of radius R − 2r. Each hypocycloid (for any value of r) is a brachistochrone for the gravitational potential inside a homogeneous sphere of radius...
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  • a lower point in the least possible time. He named the curve the "brachistochrone", (from brachystos, "shortest", and chronos, "time"): 31  Isaac Newton...
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  • Bellman equation. While classical variational problems, such as the brachistochrone problem, can be solved using the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation,...
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    but not without friction. Their most bitter dispute concerned the brachistochrone curve problem, or the equation for the path followed by a particle...
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    upward, is the curve of fastest descent under uniform gravity (the brachistochrone curve). It is also the form of a curve for which the period of an object...
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    framework for studying transient dynamic waves in elastic solids. The brachistochrone problem can be formulated and expressed as a variational problem, emphasizing...
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  • with Newton's minimal resistance problem in 1687, followed by the brachistochrone curve problem raised by Johann Bernoulli (1696). It immediately occupied...
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