Leonhard Euler · 1744 · Internet Archive
Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas
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136 DE USU METHODI
arcus BM longitudo erit $= \int\sqrt{(dy^2 + \frac{dx^2}{yy})}$. Posito ergo
$dy=pdx$, minimum esse debet haec formula $\int dx\sqrt{(\frac{1}{yy} + pp)}$
$= \int \frac{dx\sqrt{(1+yypp)}}{y}$. Erit itaque $Z = \frac{\sqrt{(1+yypp)}}{y}$, &
$dZ = -\frac{dy}{yy\sqrt{(1+y^2p^2)}} + \frac{yypdp}{y\sqrt{(1+yypp)}}$; unde $M=0$
$N = -\frac{1}{yy\sqrt{(1+y^2p^2)}}$; $P = \frac{yp}{\sqrt{(1+y^2p^2)}}$, $Q=0$ &c. Pertinet
ergo haec quaestio ad casum primum, ac solutio praebebit
lineam curvam, quae pro area quacunque APMB abscisse erit
brevissima. Pervenietur autem, uti in praecedente Exemplo,
ad aequationem hanc $Z=C+Pp$, atque curva quaesita per
data duo puncta describi poterit. Erit itaque $\frac{\sqrt{(1+yypp)}}{y} =$
$C + \frac{ypp}{\sqrt{(1+yypp
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