Date: 2022-02-05 | Article ID: 46044 |
Article 33629 introduced conservation laws in newtonian physics. In that article, the action principle was expressed by requiring that all of the forces be encoded in a single function (the potential energy). This article introduces a more powerful form the action principle: it requires that the whole system of equations of motion be derivable from a single lagrangian.
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