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What is the direction of the velocity $v=\sqrt{2gy}$ vector? Is it tangential? If so, why?
I was trying to obtain the brachistochrone as a function of time, and I failed several times because I wrongly assumed that the $v=\sqrt{2gy}$ vector points downwards (vertical vector). However, in ...
