Monday, 16 February 2015

lagrangian formalism - Hamilton's Principle



Hamilton's principle states that a dynamic system always follows a path such that its action integral is stationary (that is, maximum or minimum).


Why should the action integral be stationary? On what basis did Hamilton state this principle?




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