| Автор | F M Phelps III |
| Автор | F M Phelps IV |
| Автор | B Zorn |
| Автор | J Gormley |
| Дата выпуска | 1982-01-01 |
| dc.description | The authors have studied experimentally the brachistochrone by measuring the transit times of a 'Hot Wheels' car over several different paths connecting two points in a vertical plane. They used an electromagnetic release and a specially designed digital clock which has direct reading to 0.001 s. In each case tested, the average transit time had a standard deviation of the order of 0.001 s. Transit times for different paths differed by about 0.05-0.5 s. These data allowed them to distinguish one path from another and to separate experimentally the cyloid, which Newton found to be the extremising curve, from the other curves tested. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Institute of Physics Publishing |
| Название | An experimental study of the brachistochrone |
| Тип | paper |
| DOI | 10.1088/0143-0807/3/1/001 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1361-6404 |
| Print ISSN | 0143-0807 |
| Журнал | European Journal of Physics |
| Том | 3 |
| Первая страница | 1 |
| Последняя страница | 4 |
| Аффилиация | F M Phelps III; Physics Dept., Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI, USA |
| Аффилиация | F M Phelps IV; Physics Dept., Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI, USA |
| Аффилиация | B Zorn; Physics Dept., Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI, USA |
| Аффилиация | J Gormley; Physics Dept., Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI, USA |
| Выпуск | 1 |
