brachistochrone
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| maths the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent | |
| [C18: from Greek brakhistos, superlative of brakhus short + chronos time] | |
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brachistochrone
the planar curve on which a body subjected only to the force of gravity will slide (without friction) between two points in the least possible time (see ). Finding the curve was a problem first posed by Galileo. In the late 17th century the Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli offered a reward for the solution of this problem. He and his younger brother Johann, along with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, and others, found the curve to be a cycloid (q.v.). See also isoperimetric problem.
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