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brachystochrone

brachystochrone is the alternative form of brachistochrone.

Meaning of brachistochrone

Noun

brachistochrone (plural brachistochrones)

  1. A cycloid; the curve of fastest descent between two points.
    • Let A and B be two fixed points. Then the time it takes a particle to slide under the influence of gravity along some path joining A and B depends on the choice of the path (curve), and hence is a functional. The curve such that the particle takes the least time to go from A to B is called the...1963, Gelfand, I.M. and S.V. Fomin, Calculus of Variations, Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 3

Forms of brachystochrone

pluralbrachystochrones

Questions about brachystochrone

What is brachystochrone the alternative form of?
Brachystochrone is the alternative form of brachistochrone.

Words near brachystochrone in the dictionary

  1. brachyspiral
  2. brachystaphylin
  3. brachystaphyline
  4. brachystelechid
  5. brachystelechids
  6. brachystochrone
  7. brachystochrones
  8. brachystylous
  9. brachysyllabic
  10. brachysyndactyly
  11. brachytelephalangia

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