Brachistochrone curve

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In physics and mathematics, a brachistochrone curve (from Ancient Greek βράχιστος χρόνος (brákhistos khrónos) 'shortest time'), or curve of fastest descent, is the one lying on the plane between a point A and a lower point B, where B is not directly below A, on which a bead from rest slides frictionlessly under the influence of a uniform gravitational field to a given end point in the shortest time.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Brachistochrone curve”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: UniCollab, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.