- A
tautochrone curve or
isochrone curve (from
Ancient Gr**** ταὐτό (tauto-) 'same', ἴσος (isos-) 'equal', and χρόνος (chronos) 'time') is the
curve for...
-
Bernoulli in 1696. The
brachistochrone curve is the same
shape as the
tautochrone curve; both are cycloids. However, the
portion of the
cycloid used for...
- 1750s by
Euler and
Lagrange in
connection with
their studies of the
tautochrone problem. This is the
problem of
determining a
curve on
which a weighted...
-
Solutions to
variational problems, such as the
brachistochrone and
tautochrone questions,
introduced properties of
curves in new ways (in this case...
-
along the
curve does not
depend on the object's
starting position (the
tautochrone curve). In physics, when a
charged particle at rest is put
under a uniform...
- work of
Christiaan Huygens,
almost one
hundred years later, that the
tautochrone nature of a
swinging pendulum was used to
create an
accurate timepiece...
- isochron, protochronism, synchronic, synchronism, synchronize, synchronous,
tautochrone chrys- gold Gr**** χρυσός (khrusós), χρύσεος "golden" chrysalis, chryselephantine...
- Café
Seven bridges of Königsberg
Spectral theory Synthetic geometry Tautochrone curve Unifying theories in
mathematics Waring's
problem Warsaw School...
- same
amount of time,
regardless of its
starting point; the so-called
tautochrone problem. By
geometrical methods which anti****ted the calculus, Huygens...
-
theory Noether's
theorem Path
integral formulation Plateau's
problem Prime geodesic Principle of
least action Soap
bubble Soap film
Tautochrone curve...