Can you solve this pier puzzle?

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This math brainteaser challenges you to find a simple, elegant solution to a seemingly complex problem! Can you figure it out? There are two towns near a shore. They want to build a pier on the shoreline with a path connecting the pier to each town. They want to use as little material as possible, so they need to put the pier in a location on the shoreline that minimizes the total length of both paths added together. Where should they put the pier? This video was inspired by a brainteaser in the book “Brainteaser Physics: Challenging Physics Puzzlers” by Göran Grimvall. Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2 Creator: Dianna Cowern Editor: Jabril Ashe Researcher: Sophia Chen Featuring: Jabril Ashe https://www.youtube.com/sefdscience Katie Mack https://twitter.com/AstroKatie Derek Muller https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium http://physicsgirl.org/ http://twitter.com/thephysicsgirl http://facebook.com/thephysicsgirl http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl

Published 2016-07-20 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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