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    Centrifugal Potential & Brachistochrone in Polar Coords: Ideas Appreciated

    Well, if you set it up looking at the problem in the 1d, non-rotating frame of the wire, what would be the constraints used for the Lagrangian Multiplier? Also how would you set up the equation of motion in this same frame?
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    Centrifugal Potential & Brachistochrone in Polar Coords: Ideas Appreciated

    Just wanted to bump this thread seeing as I have the same question. Any input from the higher powers?