Huygens' cycloidal pendulum: an elementary derivation
Classical Physics
2022-04-25 v2
Abstract
A pedagogical derivation of the Huygens cycloidal pendulum, suitable for high-school students, is here presented. Our derivation rests only on simple algebraic and geometrical tricks, without the need of any Calculus concept.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2004.06401,
title = {Huygens' cycloidal pendulum: an elementary derivation},
author = {Riccardo Borghi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06401},
year = {2022}
}