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11-25-2020, 10:19 AM
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Mind Blown At The Brachistochrone Problem
Cliffs: Solves the problem of finding the quickest route from point a to b when traveling through different mediums. It gets weird when light gets involved.
All the good stuff is in the first 8 minutes of the video.
All the good stuff is in the first 8 minutes of the video.
11-25-2020, 11:05 AM
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It’s a fun problem. A lot of people think the quickest path would be a straight line, but no.
Another case of mistaken identity: some think the curve made by a hanging wire attached to two poles is a parabola...it’s not, it’s a hyperbolic trig function.
The cycloid, which is the curve that answers the brachistochrone problem, also is a source of confusion: no, the path traced by a point on a constantly rolling circle is not a circle...it’s a cycloid.
Another case of mistaken identity: some think the curve made by a hanging wire attached to two poles is a parabola...it’s not, it’s a hyperbolic trig function.
The cycloid, which is the curve that answers the brachistochrone problem, also is a source of confusion: no, the path traced by a point on a constantly rolling circle is not a circle...it’s a cycloid.
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