About brachistocrona

hands-on

About brachistocrona

Licence

Submitted by

Francisco Javie...

This hands-on is part of

Credits

Website

Fermat´s room

A classical problem proposed by Galileo.

Jose and me have two versions:

Hard version

Hints version

Designed for convex functions.

 

 

Related Hands On

Files

more hands-on

A Chat with Scientists
Paleoclimatology
Richardson's forecast factory from 1922
Ocean Acidification
Tipping Point
Comic: We need to talk, AI
La GRAN pelota
Tache
Las papas fritas
Future Mobility - The Board Game
Diplotori - flat polyhedral tori
Perspective AI card game
Video-feedback loop! Exploring mirror-symmetric binary complex trees
Ball sorting machine
GANITA
The Harmonic Series #2 - 3D sculptures
The Harmonic Series #1 - Laser
Musical bench
NSynth
Spherical mirror rooms
2 Doppelpendel (Double Pendulums)
Günther der Schneemann
Keplers First Two Laws
Tensegrity Sculpture
Square and triangular mirror rooms
Platonic Solids
Mathematic of Planet Earth - A new upgrade for the travelling hands’ on exhibition in 2017
Balls sorting mechanism
Parabolic mirror for laser beam
Gravity and the Human Migration
Stereographic projection globe
BatWing
Mirror rooms
3D-Escher-Tilings
Minimizing polyhedra
42
Menger sponge
Symmetric solids - wireframe versions
Polyhedral Calendars 2017
120-cells
Higgs Potential
Taube, Kolibri & Herz
Modular origami and polyhedra
Hyperbolic football
About brachistocrona
Lawson's minimal surface of genus 2
Puzzle
Four Math Sculptures
All maps are wrong!
Where is the sun at noon?
Tectonic Plates
Satellites under control
Permeable or impermeable?
Large Geometric Construction of Cardboard
Coriolis force
Solitons and Tsunamis
Where are you?
Is the core of the Earth solid or liquid?
The melting of glaciers
Erosion and fractal coasts
Sliced IMAGINARY
Twelve Algebraic Sculptures
Double Pendulum