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Thanks for your explanation I have finally understood it now :)
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Ah okay, so basically Lagranges Equations originally come from d'alemberts Principle and not from the Hamilton Principle, the Hamilton...
Sep 30, 2025
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At which point of the paper do you believe the author takes ##\delta \int L \;dt = 0## for granted? The paper starts with d'Alembert's...
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Formula (4) from the article merely does not make sense. Indeed, in the text above ##\delta\boldsymbol {r}_i## stands for virtual...
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In addition to @TSny's explanation in #9: the usual practice is to assume ##\delta ~\int L~dt = 0~## , and derive the equations of...
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Okay thanks guys I think I have undertstood better now. But do you have any Papers or Books where I specificely could read something...
Sep 30, 2025
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Okay thanks for the time. Do you have any names for those classical texts?
Sep 29, 2025
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Thanks for your answer. Now the thing I do not understand is how to even derive the LHS from equation (4) (in the paper). Even if we...
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Do you know where that equation came from?
Sep 29, 2025
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I have recently been really interested in the derivation of Hamiltons Principle. On my research I found that with the term ##m \cdot...
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