Questions tagged [brachistochrone-problem]
the problem of finding the path between two points such that the transit time under specified conditions is minimized.
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Why should we expect the brachistochrone problem to be solvable?
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Before solving the problem (in particular, before identifying the cycloid as the only possible minimizing curve), is there any physical intuition why we should expect there to be a ...
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