First, a correction: Last month (April 13 column) I claimed that Dimnent Chapel had once been taken apart and reassembled. Apparently not true, but IS true of the Windmill on Windmill Island. Last ...
Imagine a small light fixed to the rim of a bicycle wheel. As the bike moves, the light rises and falls in a series of arches. A long-exposure nocturnal photograph would show a cycloid, the curve ...
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The shortest path is not always the fastest path
The Brachistochrone curve shows that the quickest route between two points isn’t a straight line but a cycloid—like the path traced by a rolling wheel. Gravity pulls the bead down the steep start, ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Around 1900, American mathematicians ...
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