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Definition of Tautochrones

Tautochrone
Tautochrone Tau"to*chrone, n. [Gr. ?, for ? ? the same + ? time: cf. F. tautochrone.] (Math.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.

Meaning of Tautochrones from wikipedia

- A tautochrone curve or isochrone curve (from Ancient Gr**** ταὐτό (tauto-) 'same', ἴσος (isos-) 'equal', and χρόνος (chronos) 'time') is the curve for...
- work of Christiaan Huygens, almost one hundred years later, that the tautochrone nature of a swinging pendulum was used to create an accurate timepiece...
- 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...
- 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...
- Solutions to variational problems, such as the brachistochrone and tautochrone questions, introduced properties of curves in new ways (in this case...
- isochron, protochronism, synchronic, synchronism, synchronize, synchronous, tautochrone chrys- gold Gr**** χρυσός (khrusós), χρύσεος "golden" chrysalis, chryselephantine...
- same amount of time, regardless of its starting point; the so-called tautochrone problem. By geometrical methods which anti****ted the calculus, Huygens...
- Chandra; Joag, Pramod Sharadchandra (2001), "7.5 Barchistochrones and tautochrones inside a gravitating homogeneous sphere", classical Mechanics, Tata McGraw-Hill...
- 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...
- s={\frac {ae^{\varphi \tan \alpha }}{\sin \alpha }}} Catenary s=atan⁡φ{\displaystyle s=a\tan \varphi } Tautochrone s=asin⁡φ{\displaystyle s=a\sin \varphi }...