General's Horse Drinking: Minimizing Segment Sum via Reflection

2019-04-30 13:36
This applet demonstrates the classic 'General's Horse Drinking' optimization problem. Given points A and B on the same side of a line, it uses reflection to find B', the symmetric point of B. The intersection of AB' and the line is point P, minimizing the sum of PA and PB. Dragging P dynamically verifies the minimum at the intersection, illustrating the shortest path principle.
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