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(1)  Note:  The crucial steps in this application of the Beltrami Identity are borrowed from the calculus of variations, an upper division undergraduate course.  This derivation applies the Euler-Lagrange formula and is available as  Brachistochrone Part IV.





Brachistochrone Part  III

Brachistochrone Part IV