The Brachistochrone

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Stan Wagon “Roads and Wheels” [PDF]: web.mst.edu/~lmhall/Personal/R...
3Blue1Brown video, “The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz”: • The Brachistochrone, w...
Pile of people visualization originally from this Vsauce1 video: • How Many Things Are Th...
Online spirograph: nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/
The Brachistochrone whistleralley.com/brachistochr...
Rolling:
www.animations.physics.unsw.ed...
teacher.pas.rochester.edu/phy1...
Refraction of light:
www.physicsclassroom.com/class...
www.funscience.in/study-zone/P...
www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen...
micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/ja...
astro.unl.edu/classaction/anim...
demonstrations.wolfram.com/Fer...
Feynman on The Principle of Least Time: www.feynmanlectures.caltech.ed...
cycloid as answer to brachistochrone: sinews.siam.org/About-the-Aut...
Music from:
/ jakechudnow
and
www.audionetwork.com
Roulette animations by Eric Langlay / ericlanglay
good relevant Wikipedia articles:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachis...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautoch...
goo.gl/SlRDhK
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloid
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell's...
Wolfram demonstration projects used:
"Cycloid Curves" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
demonstrations.wolfram.com/Cyc...
Contributed by: Sean Madsen
Additional contributions by: David von Seggern (U. Nevada, Reno)
"Shaping a Road and Finding the Corresponding Wheel" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
demonstrations.wolfram.com/Sha...
Contributed by: Stan Wagon (Macalester College)

[@gxslight]

When the smart kid and the creative kid in class get chosen to do a project together

[@bigboitweaking9355]

Just imagine Michael being your maths teacher

[@monkeyslaye]

So the perfect waterslide would also be a brachistochrome.

[@armouredskeptic]

if we made a line if people around the planet, a lot of people would drown

[@DMBVR4]

So does this mean that the Brachistochrone curve is the most difficult to run UP?

[@HeeminGaminStation]

only Vsauce can reach number 13 on trending with arguably the worst thumbnail ever.

[@jamesfra1311]

Watched 2 guys talking about a curve...For 26 mins

[@thanos3784]

Michael staring at the camera in slowmo kills me 😂

[@pauliefox2077]

basically most of this episode is mythsauce.

[@BangMaster96]

This Brachistochrone should be a water slide

[@darksskull]

"If all of us held hand with each other across the earth, that would be super gay"

[@yeahboi3550]

23:45

[@Anonymoususer44569]

Michael: “Adam and I are going on tour; we hope to see you there”

[@hindustanimapper]

0:41

[@sftf557]

Adam is so impressive

[@starnaik1]

he lost his mind after isolation

[@David_Rg]

6:13

[@KratonWolf]

I know it's a pretty old video, but this is definitely one of my favourite things you've ever done, because of how it takes a mathematical proof and makes it real so even people who don't understand the math can look at it and get that it's true.

[@hughstaffordlangan4949]

vsauce:

[@TheKingdomCookies]

You know a video is good when it gets 2.5 million views with a title "The Brachistochrone" and a curve as a thumbnail