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#0, Semicubical parabola, tautochrone
Posted by Cliff P on Aug-24-07 at 04:08 PM
We read on the web that around 1687, Dutch mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens (1629 – 1695), showed that the semicubical parabola is a curve along which a particle may descend under the force of gravity so that it moves equal vertical distances in equal times.

I assume that these properties are different from the famous tautochrone or brachistochrone curve properties? Thanks.