B R Vyshakh
Articles written in Resonance – Journal of Science Education
Volume 22 Issue 9 September 2017 pp 847-866 General Article
P C Deshmukh Parth Rajauria Abiya Rajans B R Vyshakh Sudipta Dutta
The brachistochrone problem posed by Bernoulli and its solutionhighlights one of the most famous experiments in physicswhich illustrates the variational principle. This pedagogicalstudy is designed to ignite a classroom discussion on the variationalproblem. We overview the Euler–Lagrange formalismof the variational principle and obtain the solution to thebrachistochrone problem. We demonstrate the success of thevariationalmethod using brachistochronemodels which werefabricated specially for this purpose.
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