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Brachystochrone

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A curve in which a body starting from a given point and descending solely by the force of gravity will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path This curve of quickest descent as it is sometimes called is in a vacuum the same as the cycloid

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