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Curve for fastest time down a ramp [duplicate]
I came across a physics experiment video showing three balls released from a point A, going down three different kinds of ramps leading to a point B (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61S0KW7e-rc)
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Fastest path for a gravity train [duplicate]
On wikipedia > gravity train, the time to go from any point A to any point B at the surface of the earth (assuming earth is a ...
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Why is a cycloid path the fastest way to roll a ball downward? [duplicate]
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Path to obtain the shortest traveling time
I've been told that if one would want to make a ramp to get a ball from point A to a lower point B (at a certain horizontal distance ...
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Path to obtain the shortest traveling time
Asume we have a particle sitting at the point A(0,0) in a gravitational field.
(g=9.81) It is going to move along some path to the point B(a,b) Where a>0 and b<0.
What is the curve the particle ...
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