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Brachistochrone curve

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3382:, dated 7 March 1697. Either Gregory did not understand Newton's argument, or Newton's explanation was very brief. However, it is possible, with a high degree of confidence, to construct Newton's proof from Gregory's notes, by analogy with his method to determine the solid of minimum resistance (Principia, Book 2, Proposition 34, Scholium 2). A detailed description of his solution of this latter problem is included in the draft of a letter in 1694, also to David Gregory. In addition to the minimum time curve problem, there was a second problem that Newton also solved at the same time. Both solutions appeared anonymously in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, for January 1697. 4548: 4534: 120: 31: 3325:, is correct but does not indicate the method by which Newton arrived at his conclusion. Bernoulli, writing to Henri Basnage in March 1697, indicated that even though its author, "by an excess of modesty", had not revealed his name, yet even from the scant details supplied it could be recognised as Newton's work, "as the lion by its claw" (in Latin, 4813:(His communication together with of two others in a report to him first from Johann Bernoulli, then from the Marquis de l'Hôpital, of reported solutions of the problem of the curve of quickest descent, publicly proposed by Johann Bernoulli, geometer — one with a solution of his other problem proposed afterward by the same .), 4811:"Communicatio suae pariter, duarumque alienarum ad edendum sibi primum a Dn. Jo. Bernoullio, deinde a Dn. Marchione Hospitalio communicatarum solutionum problematis curva celerrimi descensus a Dn. Jo. Bernoullio Geometris publice propositi, una cum solutione sua problematis alterius ab eodem postea propositi." 199:
the time along the lesser arc DB will be less than for any other path from D to B. In fact, the quickest path from A to B or from D to B, the brachistochrone, is a cycloidal arc, which is shown in Fig. 3 for the path from A to B, and Fig.4 for the path from D to B, superposed on the respective circular arc.
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Assuming now that Fig. 1 is the minimum curve not yet determined, with vertical axis CV, and the circle CHV removed, and Fig. 2 shows part of the curve between the infinitesimal arc eE and a further infinitesimal arc Ff a finite distance along the curve. The extra time, t, to traverse eL (rather than
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Consider a small arc eE, which the body is ascending. Assume that it traverses the straight line eL to point L, horizontally displaced from E by a small distance, o, instead of the arc eE. Note, that eL is not the tangent at e, and that o is negative when L is between B and E. Draw the line through E
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is due to David Brewster's 1855 book on the life and works of Newton. Bernoulli's intention was, Whiteside argues, simply to indicate he could tell the anonymous solution was Newton's, just as it was possible to tell that an animal was a lion given its claw; it was not meant to suggest that Bernoulli
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In Fig.1, from the “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems”, Galileo claims that the body sliding along the circular arc of a quarter circle, from A to B will reach B in less time than if it took any other path from A to B. Similarly, in Fig. 2, from any point D on the arc AB, he claims that
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is dated 1 January 1697, in the Gregorian Calendar. This was 22 December 1696 in the Julian Calendar, in use in Britain. According to Newton's niece, Catherine Conduitt, Newton learned of the challenge at 4 pm on 29 January and had solved it by 4 am the following morning. His solution, communicated
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The line KNC intersects AL at N, and line Kne intersects it at n, and they make a small angle CKe at K. Let NK = a, and define a variable point, C on KN extended. Of all the possible circular arcs Ce, it is required to find the arc Mm, which requires the minimum time to slide between the 2 radii, KM
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found the challenge in a letter from Johann Bernoulli. Newton stayed up all night to solve it and mailed the solution anonymously by the next post. Upon reading the solution, Bernoulli immediately recognized its author, exclaiming that he "recognizes a lion from his claw mark". This story gives some
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Fig. 1, shows Gregory’s diagram (except the additional line IF is absent from it, and Z, the start point has been added). The curve ZVA is a cycloid and CHV is its generating circle. Since it appears that the body is moving upward from e to E, it must be assumed that a small body is released from Z
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to pose a challenge to the international mathematical community: to find the form of the curve joining two fixed points so that a mass will slide down along it, under the influence of gravity alone, in the minimum amount of time. The solution was originally to be submitted within six months. At the
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Johann Bernoulli's direct method is historically important as a proof that the brachistochrone is the cycloid. The method is to determine the curvature of the curve at each point. All the other proofs, including Newton's (which was not revealed at the time) are based on finding the gradient at each
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At L the particle continues along a path LM, parallel to the original EF, to some arbitrary point M. As it has the same speed at L as at E, the time to traverse LM is the same as it would have been along the original curve EF. At M it returns to the original path at point f. By the same reasoning,
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Assume AMmB is the part of the cycloid joining A to B, which the body slides down in the minimum time. Let ICcJ be part of a different curve joining A to B, which can be closer to AL than AMmB. If the arc Mm subtends the angle MKm at its centre of curvature, K, let the arc on IJ that subtends the
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of May 1697. He wrote that this was partly because he believed it was sufficient to convince anyone who doubted the conclusion, partly because it also resolved two famous problems in optics that "the late Mr. Huygens" had raised in his treatise on light. In the same letter he criticised Newton for
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In a letter to L’Hôpital, (21/12/1696), Bernoulli stated that when considering the problem of the curve of quickest descent, after only 2 days he noticed a curious affinity or connection with another no less remarkable problem leading to an ‘indirect method’ of solution. Then shortly afterwards he
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gain the gratitude of the whole scientific community by placing before the finest mathematicians of our time a problem which will test their methods and the strength of their intellect. If someone communicates to me the solution of the proposed problem, I shall publicly declare him worthy of praise
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I, Johann Bernoulli, address the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. Nothing is more attractive to intelligent people than an honest, challenging problem, whose possible solution will bestow fame and remain as a lasting monument. Following the example set by Pascal, Fermat, etc., I hope to
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In a letter to Henri Basnage, held at the University of Basel Public Library, dated 30 March 1697, Johann Bernoulli stated that he had found two methods (always referred to as "direct" and "indirect") to show that the Brachistochrone was the "common cycloid", also called the "roulette". Following
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showed how 2nd differentials can be used to obtain the condition for least time. A modernized version of the proof is as follows. If we make a negligible deviation from the path of least time, then, for the differential triangle formed by the displacement along the path and the horizontal and
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Therefore, the increase in time to traverse a small arc displaced at one endpoint depends only on the displacement at the endpoint and is independent of the position of the arc. However, by Newton’s method, this is just the condition required for the curve to be traversed in the minimum time
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Since the displacement EL is small, it differs little in direction from the tangent at E so that the angle EnL is close to a right-angle. In the limit as the arc eE approaches zero, eL becomes parallel to VH, provided o is small compared to eE making the triangles EnL and CHV similar.
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This condition defines the curve that the body slides along in the shortest time possible. For each point, M on the curve, the radius of curvature, MK is cut in 2 equal parts by its axis AL. This property, which Bernoulli says had been known for a long time, is unique to the cycloid.
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Balls rolling under uniform gravity without friction on a cycloid (black) and straight lines with various gradients. It demonstrates that the ball on the curve always beats the balls travelling in a straight line path to the intersection point of the curve and each straight
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derived the same solution, but Johann's derivation was incorrect, and he tried to pass off Jakob's solution as his own. Johann published the solution in the journal in May of the following year, and noted that the solution is the same curve as Huygens's
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Bernoulli allowed six months for the solutions but none were received during this period. At the request of Leibniz, the time was publicly extended for a year and a half. At 4 p.m. on 29 January 1697 when he arrived home from the Royal Mint,
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where the last part is the displacement for given change in time for 2nd differentials. Now consider the changes along the two neighboring paths in the figure below for which the horizontal separation between paths along the central line is
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A body is regarded as sliding along any small circular arc Ce between the radii KC and Ke, with centre K fixed. The first stage of the proof involves finding the particular circular arc, Mm, which the body traverses in the minimum time.
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of 1696, p. 269, from which is to be found the brachistochrone line , that is, in which a weight descends from a given point to a given point in the shortest time, and on constructing the tautochrone or the wave of rays.),
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He then proceeds with what he called his Synthetic Solution, which was a classical, geometrical proof, that there is only a single curve that a body can slide down in the minimum time, and that curve is the cycloid.
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Galileo’s conjecture is that “The shortest time of all will be that of its fall along the arc ADB and similar properties are to be understood as holding for all lesser arcs taken upward from the lowest limit B.”
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Consequently the nearer the inscribed polygon approaches a circle the shorter the time required for descent from A to C. What has been proven for the quadrant holds true also for smaller arcs; the reasoning is the
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Newton gives no indication of how he discovered that the cycloid satisfied this last relation. It may have been by trial and error, or he may have recognised immediately that it implied the curve was the cycloid.
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used this principle to derive the brachistochrone curve by considering the trajectory of a beam of light in a medium where the speed of light increases following a constant vertical acceleration (that of gravity
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idea of Newton's power, since Johann Bernoulli took two weeks to solve it. Newton also wrote, "I do not love to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things...", and Newton had already solved
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Let MN = x. He defines m so that MD = mx, and n so that Mm = nx + na and notes that x is the only variable and that m is finite and n is infinitely small. The small time to travel along arc Mm is
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If the arc, Cc subtended by the angle infinitesimal angle MKm on IJ is not circular, it must be greater than Ce, since Cec becomes a right-triangle in the limit as angle MKm approaches zero.
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He explained that he had not published it in 1697, for reasons that no longer applied in 1718. This paper was largely ignored until 1904 when the depth of the method was first appreciated by
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From the preceding it is possible to infer that the quickest path of all , from one point to another, is not the shortest path, namely, a straight line, but the arc of a circle.
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same angle be Cc. The circular arc through C with centre K is Ce. Point D on AL is vertically above M. Join K to D and point H is where CG intersects KD, extended if necessary.
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and which gives MN (=x) as a function of NK (= a). From this the equation of the curve could be obtained from the integral calculus, though he does not demonstrate this.
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Assuming for simplicity that the particle (or the beam) with coordinates (x,y) departs from the point (0,0) and reaches maximum speed after falling a vertical distance
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Because eEFf is the minimum curve, (t – T) is must be greater than zero, whether o is positive or negative. It follows that the coefficient of o in (1) must be zero:
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Given two points A and B in a vertical plane, what is the curve traced out by a point acted on only by gravity, which starts at A and reaches B in the shortest time
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The curve is independent of both the mass of the test body and the local strength of gravity. Only a parameter is chosen so that the curve fits the starting point
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parallel to CH, cutting eL at n. From a property of the cycloid, En is the normal to the tangent at E, and similarly the tangent at E is parallel to VH.
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suggestion of Leibniz, Bernoulli extended the challenge until Easter 1697, by means of a printed text called "Programma", published in
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Bernoulli noted that Snell's law of refraction gives a constant of the motion for a beam of light in a medium of variable density:
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Clearly there has to be 2 equal and opposite displacements, or the body would not return to the endpoint, A, of the curve.
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Finally, he considers the more general case where the speed is an arbitrary function X(x), so the time to be minimised is
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under the influence of a uniform gravitational field to a given end point in the shortest time. The problem was posed by
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Der Briefwechsel von Johann I Bernoulli", Vol. II: "Der Briefwechsel mit Pierre Varignon, Erster Teil: 1692-1702"
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Herman Erlichson (1999), "Johann Bernoulli's brachistochrone solution using Fermat's principle of least time",
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Bernoulli, Johann. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) Vol. 3, 1718, pp. 135–138
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In addition to his indirect method he also published the five other replies to the problem that he received.
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The difference (t – T) is the extra time it takes along the path eLMf compared to the original eEFf :
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At the onset, the angle must be zero when the particle speed is zero. Hence, the brachistochrone curve is
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If e is fixed, and if f is considered a variable point higher up the curve, then for all such points, f,
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The speed of motion of the body along an arbitrary curve does not depend on the horizontal displacement.
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Hand, Louis N., and Janet D. Finch. "Chapter 2: Variational Calculus and Its Application to Mechanics."
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In the brachistochrone problem, the motion of the body is given by the time evolution of the parameter:
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had tried to solve a similar problem for the path of the fastest descent from a point to a wall in his
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From this he concludes that a body traverses the cycloid AMB in less time than any other curve ACB.
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considered Newton to be the lion among mathematicians, as it has since come to be interpreted.
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The speed reaches a maximum value when the trajectory becomes horizontal and the angle θ = 90°.
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to the Royal Society, is dated 30 January. This solution, later published anonymously in the
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In 1718, Bernoulli explained how he solved the brachistochrone problem by his direct method.
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and higher, which represent the error due to the approximation that eL and VH are parallel.
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The reason for the synthetic demonstration, in the manner of the ancients, is to convince
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In the end, five mathematicians responded with solutions: Newton, Jakob Bernoulli,
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For the path of least times these times are equal so for their difference we get,
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and slides along the curve to A, without friction, under the action of gravity.
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possible. Therefore, he concludes that the minimum curve must be the cycloid.
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The curve of fastest descent is not a straight or polygonal line (blue) but a
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The straight line, the catenary, the brachistochrone, the circle, and Fermat
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Note, Bernoulli proves that CF > CG by a similar but different argument.
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But, since points, e and f are arbitrary, equation (2) can be true only if
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Stewart, James. "Section 10.1 - Curves Defined by Parametric Equations."
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and t be the times the body takes to fall along Mm and Ce respectively.
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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Also en approaches the length of chord eE, and the increase in length,
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represents the angle of the trajectory with respect to the vertical.
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The speed along eE or eL can be taken as that at E, proportional to
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including two ways of derivation of the equation of geodesic with
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the reduction in time, T, to reach f from M rather than from F is
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of fastest descent, is the one lying on the plane between a point
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advice from Leibniz, he included only the indirect method in the
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is the time since the release of the body from the point (0,0).
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Rearranging terms in the law of refraction and squaring gives:
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This conclusion had appeared six years earlier in Galileo's
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posed the problem of the brachistochrone to the readers of
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Table IV from Bernoulli's article in Acta Eruditorum 1697
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In June 1696, Johann Bernoulli had used the pages of the
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eE) is nL divided by the speed at E (proportional to
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This appears to be all that Gregory’s note contains.
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It follows that, when differentiated this must give
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D. T. Whiteside notes that the letter in French has
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3287:which agrees with Johann's assumption based on the 96:The brachistochrone curve is the same shape as the 5040: 4510: 4427: 4341: 4283: 4236: 4189: 4136: 4109: 4024: 3997: 3879: 3811: 3747: 3720: 3683: 3573: 3528: 3498: 3471: 3374: 3276: 3148: 2941: 2836: 2714: 2619: 2538: 2453: 2360: 2239:{\displaystyle dx={\sqrt {\frac {y}{D-y}}}\,dy\,,} 2238: 2163: 2077: 1951: 1882: 1850: 1750: 1662: 1636: 1569:{\displaystyle CG=CH-GH={\frac {MD.(MK-2CM)}{MK}}} 1568: 1477: 1402:{\displaystyle CG=CH+GH={\frac {MD.(MK+2CM)}{MK}}} 1401: 1310: 1208: 1115: 976: 916: 859: 804: 746: 703: 659: 601: 552: 476: 5314:( at MathCurve, with excellent animated examples) 4911:(First trade paperback ed.). New York City: 4791:Solutions to Johann Bernoulli's problem of 1696: 3128: 3016: 977:{\displaystyle {\frac {Mm}{Ce}}={\frac {MD}{CH}}} 5047:(2nd ed.). Addison Wesley Longman. p.  379:and Km. To find Mm Bernoulli argues as follows. 5128:, by P. Freguglia and M. Giaquinta, pp. 53–57, 4730:Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 4705:. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 45, 70. Print. 273:, which is considered the first of the kind in 227: 218: 5222:The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton Vol. 8 5126:The Early Period of the Calculus of Variations 4809:G.G.L. (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) (May 1697) 1719:in a uniform gravitational field is given by: 136:. If the body is given an initial velocity at 5011:. Random House Publishing Group. p. 94. 1894:The equations above lead to two conclusions: 1637:{\displaystyle CF={\frac {CH^{2}}{MD}}>CG} 8: 4626:(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 4284:{\displaystyle {\frac {DE}{eE{\sqrt {CB}}}}} 4237:{\displaystyle {\frac {DE}{eE{\sqrt {CB}}}}} 4190:{\displaystyle {\frac {FG}{Ff{\sqrt {CI}}}}} 1695:) is one that takes the least time. In 1697 3472:{\displaystyle eL-eE=nL={\frac {o.CH}{CV}}} 1478:{\displaystyle CH={\frac {MD.(MK-CM)}{MK}}} 5146:Costabel, Pierre; Peiffer, Jeanne (1988). 5092:Costabel, Pierre; Peiffer, Jeanne (1988). 300:into what the latter called (in 1766) the 225:Bernoulli wrote the problem statement as: 5369:to the Brachistochrone problem in Python. 5043:A History of Mathematics: An Introduction 4934: 4932: 4848:(A solution of brother's problems, … ), 4495: 4475: 4459: 4442: 4440: 4405: 4382: 4359: 4357: 4334: 4318: 4301: 4299: 4268: 4251: 4249: 4221: 4204: 4202: 4174: 4157: 4155: 4128: 4122: 4094: 4077: 4061: 4044: 4042: 4016: 4010: 3971: 3954: 3938: 3921: 3896: 3864: 3838: 3830: 3796: 3770: 3762: 3739: 3733: 3708: 3706: 3666: 3650: 3624: 3601: 3593: 3586:Let t be the additional time to reach L, 3552: 3541: 3516: 3514: 3490: 3484: 3443: 3414: 3366: 3360: 3265: 3250: 3240: 3232: 3223: 3211: 3196: 3186: 3178: 3169: 3167: 3137: 3127: 3126: 3117: 3102: 3092: 3084: 3075: 3063: 3048: 3038: 3030: 3021: 3015: 3014: 2999: 2989: 2976: 2966: 2960: 2930: 2917: 2902: 2892: 2884: 2875: 2866: 2856: 2850: 2825: 2812: 2797: 2787: 2779: 2770: 2761: 2751: 2745: 2703: 2681: 2665: 2641: 2639: 2608: 2580: 2562: 2530: 2514: 2498: 2489: 2439: 2429: 2406: 2275: 2273: 2232: 2225: 2205: 2194: 2152: 2139: 2134: 2121: 2115: 2104: 2066: 2050: 2034: 2021: 2008: 1995: 1982: 1977: 1971: 1936: 1927: 1921: 1875: 1840: 1831: 1808: 1798: 1784: 1775: 1773: 1735: 1727: 1649: 1608: 1598: 1587: 1519: 1490: 1431: 1420: 1352: 1323: 1264: 1232: 1221: 1177: 1145: 1134: 1102: 1078: 1059: 1035: 1007: 994: 992: 954: 931: 929: 897: 887: 876: 843: 825: 817: 788: 770: 762: 739: 672: 622: 614: 575: 573: 530: 497: 495: 460: 424: 407: 389: 387: 310:did further work that resulted in modern 5171:Babb, Jeff; Currie, James (July 2008), 4941:A Source Book in Mathematics, 1200-1800 4603: 2620:{\displaystyle 2ds\ d^{2}s=2dx\ d^{2}x} 917:{\displaystyle CF={\frac {CH^{2}}{MD}}} 660:{\displaystyle X={\frac {(x+a)dX}{dx}}} 27:Fastest curve descent without friction 4697: 4695: 2175:Substituting from the expressions for 609:. The minimum condition then becomes 4874:reprinted: Isaac Newton (May 1697) 4846:"Solutio problematum fraternorum, … " 4724:Discourses regarding two new sciences 3159:And the condition for least time is, 2631:And finally rearranging terms gives, 7: 2539:{\displaystyle ds^{2}=dx^{2}+dy^{2}} 1711:, the instantaneous speed of a body 5375:Unified approach to some geodesics. 4582:Newton's minimal resistance problem 1952:{\displaystyle v_{m}={\sqrt {2gD}}} 1412:If Ce is closer to K than Mm then 271:Newton's minimal resistance problem 5254:Bulletin de l'Union des Physiciens 5180:The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast 4882:of the month of January in 1697), 3574:{\displaystyle CH={\sqrt {CB.CV}}} 2257:generated by a circle of diameter 695: 602:{\displaystyle {\frac {(x+a)}{X}}} 286:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus 25: 4720:"Third Day, Theorem 22, Prop. 36" 4677:The Brachistochrone Paradigm, in 5363:as a special case of a geodesic. 5220:Whiteside, Derek Thomas (2008). 4859:Marquis de l'Hôpital (May 1697) 4546: 4532: 3390: 1126:Since MN = NK, for the cycloid: 367: 187: 5080:Contemporary Newtonian Research 4681:, Collegiate Publishers, 2009. 4638:Calculus: Early Transcendentals 1751:{\displaystyle v={\sqrt {2gy}}} 704:{\displaystyle X=(x+a)\Delta x} 328:discovered a ‘direct method’. 5341:Wolfram Demonstrations Project 3910: 3898: 2417: 2411: 2348: 2330: 2310: 2292: 2072: 2040: 1902:to the vertical at the origin. 1552: 1531: 1461: 1443: 1385: 1364: 1294: 1276: 692: 680: 637: 625: 590: 578: 512: 500: 457: 447: 442: 430: 1: 5322:, Whistler Alley Mathematics. 4778: : 269. 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The much quoted version 3323:Philosophical Transactions 2472:Jakob Bernoulli's solution 1663:{\displaystyle \tau <t} 5298:"Brachistochrone Problem" 4742:Galilei, Galileo (1967). 4655:"Brachistochrone Problem" 4562:Aristotle's wheel paradox 1693:Snell's law of refraction 667:which he writes as : 85:, on which a bead slides 5367:Optimal control solution 5245:Dubois, Jacques (1991). 5076:Newton the Mathematician 5039:Katz, Victor J. (1998). 3536:, which is as CH, since 3306:Acta Eruditorum Lipsidae 3294: 2550:On differentiation with 2481:vertical displacements, 2471: 2088:which can be solved for 339:Acta Eruditorum Lipsidae 317: 216:in June, 1696. He said: 182:Just after Theorem 6 of 5337:Brachistochrone Problem 5192:10.54870/1551-3440.1099 4623:Encyclopædia Britannica 4617:"Brachistochrone"  3342:tanquam ex ungue Leonem 1883:{\displaystyle \theta } 1715:after falling a height 357:Constantin Carathéodory 342:concealing his method. 236:Johann and his brother 152: 4939:Struik, J. D. (1969), 4572:Calculus of variations 4512: 4429: 4343: 4285: 4238: 4197:is constant (equal to 4191: 4144:is greater than zero. 4138: 4111: 4026: 3999: 3881: 3813: 3749: 3722: 3697:He argues as follows. 3685: 3575: 3530: 3500: 3473: 3376: 3375:{\displaystyle 78^{1}} 3313:, in the Netherlands. 3278: 3150: 2943: 2838: 2737: 2716: 2621: 2540: 2455: 2362: 2240: 2165: 2079: 1953: 1884: 1852: 1752: 1709:conservation of energy 1664: 1644:, and it follows that 1638: 1570: 1479: 1403: 1312: 1210: 1117: 978: 918: 861: 806: 748: 705: 661: 603: 554: 478: 312:infinitesimal calculus 303:calculus of variations 290:Guillaume de l'Hôpital 275:calculus of variations 234: 223: 180: 125: 110:calculus of variations 81:is not directly below 39: 5335:by Michael Trott and 4513: 4430: 4344: 4286: 4239: 4192: 4139: 4137:{\displaystyle o^{2}} 4112: 4027: 4025:{\displaystyle o^{2}} 4000: 3882: 3814: 3750: 3748:{\displaystyle o^{2}} 3728:), ignoring terms in 3723: 3686: 3576: 3531: 3501: 3499:{\displaystyle o^{2}} 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Index

Brachistochrone

cycloid
physics
mathematics
Ancient Greek
curve
frictionlessly
Johann Bernoulli
tautochrone curve
cycloids
cusp
calculus of variations
optimal control

tautochrone curve
Galileo Galilei
Two New Sciences
Diagrams for Knowledge (XXG) entry regarding Galileo's Conjecture
Johann Bernoulli
Acta Eruditorum
Jakob Bernoulli
tautochrone curve
Isaac Newton
Newton's minimal resistance problem
calculus of variations
Gottfried Leibniz
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
Tom Whiteside

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