{"id":33891,"date":"2017-01-28T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-problem-of-quickest-descent"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:49:50","slug":"the-problem-of-quickest-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-problem-of-quickest-descent","title":{"rendered":"The problem of quickest descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-problem-of-quickest-descent.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brachistochrone is a Greek word which translates to <strong>the shortest time, <\/strong>and it refers to one of the questions posed by one of the Bernoulli\u2019s brothers; Johann Bernoulli. If you want to move from point A to B in the quickest time possible what is the shortest time you can take. Most people will assume that the straight line will be the shortest and will take the least time which isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the solution to this problem by Steven Strogatz <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Cld0p3a43fU\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/toponday.com\/problem-quickest-descent\/\">http:\/\/toponday.com\/problem-quickest-descent\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brachistochrone is a Greek word which translates to the shortest time, and it refers to one of the questions posed by one of the Bernoulli\u2019s brothers; Johann Bernoulli. If you want to move from point A to B in the quickest time possible what is the shortest time you can take. Most people will assume [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65273,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33891\/revisions\/65273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}