Experimental science. Elementary, practical and experimental physics (1890)
Hopkins, George M. (George Milton), 1842-1902 · New York, Munn & co. · leaf 63
W.iter H.iinmer. 40 EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE. the body will reach the point of stopping quicker than thebody on the inclined plane, although it travels over a longerdistance. In the case of the cycloidal curve, the body ac-quires a high velocity at once, as its path at the beginning vl, o ■—I … D. a, < S is practically vertical. This curve has been called the curveof swiftest descent, as a falling body passes over it from thepoint of starting to the point of stopping in less time thanupon any other path, excepting, of course, the vertical.The cycloid has another property, in virtue of…
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