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    In physics, Lagrangian mechanics is a formulation of classical mechanics founded on the stationary-action principle (also known as the principle of least...
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    relativistic Lagrangian mechanics is Lagrangian mechanics applied in the context of special relativity and general relativity. The relativistic Lagrangian can...
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  • density Lagrangian mechanics, a formulation of classical mechanics Lagrangian (field theory), a formalism in classical field theory Lagrangian point, a...
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    Hamiltonian mechanics is a reformulation of Lagrangian mechanics that emerged in 1833. Introduced by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hamiltonian mechanics replaces...
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    leading to the development of analytical mechanics (which includes Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics). These advances, made predominantly in...
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  • case one may revert to Newtonian mechanics. Two dominant branches of analytical mechanics are Lagrangian mechanics (using generalized coordinates and...
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  • Lagrangian field theory is a formalism in classical field theory. It is the field-theoretic analogue of Lagrangian mechanics. Lagrangian mechanics is used...
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  • Hamiltonian constraint Moment map Contact geometry Analysis of flows Nambu mechanics Action (physics) Lagrangian Euler–Lagrange equations Noether's theorem...
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    In classical mechanics, Routh's procedure or Routhian mechanics is a hybrid formulation of Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics developed by...
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    translational symmetry. Advanced formulations of classical mechanics, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, allow one to choose coordinate systems that incorporate...
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    T={\tfrac {1}{2}}mv^{2}} and potential V {\displaystyle V} parts of the Lagrangian L = T − V {\displaystyle L=T-V} in arbitrary generalized coordinates the...
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    Displacement field (mechanics) Equivalent latitude Generalized Lagrangian mean Trajectory (fluid mechanics) Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian) Lagrangian particle...
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    to the conservation of angular momentum throughout the motion. In Lagrangian mechanics, angular momentum for rotation around a given axis, is the conjugate...
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  • of Y → X. In classical mechanics, many dynamical systems are Lagrangian systems. The configuration space of such a Lagrangian system is a fiber bundle...
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  • Action (physics) (category Lagrangian mechanics)
    Functional derivative Functional integration Hamiltonian mechanics Lagrangian Lagrangian mechanics Measure (physics) Noether's theorem Path integral formulation...
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    Centrifugal force (category Mechanics)
    concepts. One of these instances occurs in Lagrangian mechanics. Lagrangian mechanics formulates mechanics in terms of generalized coordinates {qk}, which...
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    In celestial mechanics, the Lagrange points (/ləˈɡrɑːndʒ/; also Lagrangian points or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects...
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  • Position and momentum spaces (category Quantum mechanics)
    Broglie relation is not true in a crystal. Most often in Lagrangian mechanics, the Lagrangian L(q, dq/dt, t) is in configuration space, where q = (q1,...
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  • Canonical coordinates (category Lagrangian mechanics)
    T^{*}Q} ; these coordinates are called the canonical coordinates. In Lagrangian mechanics, a different set of coordinates are used, called the generalized...
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    μ {\displaystyle \mu } . Alternatively, a Lagrangian description of the two-body problem gives a Lagrangian of L = 1 2 m 1 r ˙ 1 2 + 1 2 m 2 r ˙ 2 2 −...
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    derivation of (Eq. 1) Equation 1 can additionally be obtained through Lagrangian Mechanics. More specifically, using the Euler–Lagrange equations (or Lagrange's...
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    work–energy principle eliminates the constraint forces underlies Lagrangian mechanics. This section focuses on the work–energy principle as it applies...
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  • {H}}\}} denotes the Poisson bracket. Suppose a system is defined by the Lagrangian L with generalized coordinates q. If L has no explicit time dependence...
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  • reformulation of the original problem, known as the Lagrangian function or Lagrangian. In the general case, the Lagrangian is defined as L ( x , λ ) ≡ f ( x ) + ⟨...
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    Joseph-Louis Lagrange (category Lagrangian mechanics)
    now known as Lagrangian points. Lagrange is best known for transforming Newtonian mechanics into a branch of analysis, Lagrangian mechanics. He presented...
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  • zero-thickness (infinitely thin) string behaviour, using the principles of Lagrangian mechanics. Just as the action for a free point particle is proportional to...
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  • Semisprays arise naturally as the extremal curves of action integrals in Lagrangian mechanics. Generalizing all these examples, any (possibly nonlinear) connection...
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  • Classical field theory (category Lagrangian mechanics)
    considering effects of quantization; theories that incorporate quantum mechanics are called quantum field theories. In most contexts, 'classical field...
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  • of energy Lagrangian mechanics, another theoretical formalism, based on the principle of the least action Classical statistical mechanics generalizes...
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    D'Alembert's principle (category Lagrangian mechanics)
    2010-06-13. Gay-Balmaz, François; Yoshimura, Hiroaki (2018). "From Lagrangian Mechanics to Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: A Variational Perspective". Entropy...
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