Abstract
We establish an instructive experiment to investigate the minimum time curve
traveled by a small billiard ball rolling in a grooved track under gravity. Our
intention is to popularize the concept of minimum time curve anew, and
to propose it as a feasible physics experiment both for freshmen and sophomore
classes. We observed that even the non-physics major students did enjoy such a
cycloid experiment.
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