Generalized approach to Galileo’s swiftest descent problem on a circle
Nearly 400 years ago Galileo Galilei posed a conjecture about the fastest descent on the lower half of a circle. Namely, he assumed that the descent along the circular arc itself is faster than along any broken line of chords. Galileo studied the case when the initial speed is zero, and the paths en...
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Estonian Academy Publishers
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences |
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