Recent content by jordan23

Point well taken, good idea. I'll let you know if it works out.

right, I think that is the same result that I get. Upon the simplification that you mentioned, and then solving the diff eq, I think it turns out to be: Kx - x*y^-1/2 + C = 2y^1/2 : c,k are constants and the y's cannont be combined and therefore y is a function of y. Hopefully I am...

I am trying to find the extremal that minimizes \int_{0}^{1} \sqrt{y(1+y'^2)} dx Because it is not explicitly a function of the free variable x, I can use the shortcut: constant=F-y'*(dF/dy') to solve for y(x) My problem is that after grinding through the algebra my y(x) is a function...