Tachytrope
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A curve in which the law of the velocity is given may be called a tachytrope.
first used by Benjamin Peirce,in A system of Analytic Mechanics, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1855.
[edit] References
- http://www.math.harvard.edu/history/peirce_mechanics/0392.html
- http://www.math.harvard.edu/history/peirce_mechanics/

