This thread is about acceleration due to gravity. And a person who likes creating pseudo words.eccentrically1 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 12:44 pm I thought the thread was about a ball arriving first down a cycloid slope before a diagonal one.
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... Ywo5x0p5Le
One could say ersatz knowledge. In effect a limited example of knowledge.
The original demo did show an increase in acceleration up to the same end velocity from a initial zero velocity start.
Another interpretation is the ball rolling down the straight ramp is supported [pushed up] all along it's path.
The cycloid slop this [pushing up] starts small and increases over time.
As we can see any increase of speed during it's path has to be returned to reach the same end height.
Is there energy generation at any point?
What measure would you use to qualify such a declaration?
Does the first straight slop supply more energy to the ball in the end or does the cycloid path?
Or are they the same?
Now from this difference in time taken. What people do is look for is an exploit.
That is what is being looked at in the thread.