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From Newtonian to Lagrangian mechanics
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Extensions to include non-conservative forces
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Other contexts and formulations
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Equations of motion
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Overview
- Physics
- Classical mechanics
- D'Alembert principle D'Alembert's principle
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Mécanique analytique
- Configuration space Configuration space (physics)
- Kinetic Kinetic energy
- Potential Potential energy
- Action functional Action (physics)
- Stationary point
- Minimum Maximum and minimum
- Saddle Saddle point
- Tangent map Pushforward (differential)
- Closed Closed system
- Energy conservation law
- Integral of motion
- Euler–Lagrange equation
- Newton's second law of motion
Introduction
- Torus
- Angular velocity
- Generalized coordinates Generalized coordinate
- System of equations
- Point particle
- Masses Mass
- Position vector
- Cartesian coordinates
- Three-dimensional space
- Coordinates Coordinate vector
- Velocity
- Time derivative
- Equations of motion
- Newton's laws
- Force
- Acceleration
- Ordinary differential equations Ordinary differential equation
- Energies Energy
- Sum Summation
- Dot product
- Conservative forces Conservative force
- Newtonian gravity
- Electromagnetic potential
- Tangent bundle
- Trajectory
- Action functional
Equations of motion
- Lagrange multiplier
- Partial derivatives Partial derivative
- Independent variables Dependent and independent variables
- Differentiation rules
- Chain rules Chain rule
- Generalized coordinates
- Functions Function (mathematics)
- Total time derivative Total derivative
- Calculus of variations
- Implicit differentiation
- Relativistic Lagrangian mechanics
- Friction
- Rayleigh dissipation function
- Holonomic constraints
- Nonholonomic constraints
- Newtonian mechanics Newton's laws of motion
From Newtonian to Lagrangian mechanics
- Equation of motion
- Newton's second law
- Initial conditions Initial condition
- Curvilinear coordinates
- Tensor index notation
- Covariant components Covariance and contravariance of vectors
- Christoffel symbols
- Metric tensor
- Geodesics Geodesic
- Curved spacetime
- Einstein Albert Einstein
- General relativity
- Analytical mechanics
- Jacques Bernoulli
- Static equilibrium
- D'Alembert
- Virtual displacements Virtual displacement
- Virtual work
- Total differential
- Generalized forces Generalized force
- Integration by parts
- Hamilton's principle
- Functional Functional (mathematics)
- Angular momentum
- Action principles
- Brachistochrone problem
- Jean Bernoulli
- Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Daniel Bernoulli
- L'Hôpital Guillaume de l'Hôpital
Properties of the Lagrangian
- Point transformation Canonical transformation
- Conserved quantities Conservation law
- Noether's theorem
- Hamiltonian Hamiltonian mechanics
- Homogeneous function
Examples
- Gradient
- Scalar potential
- Simple pendulum
- Inertial frame
- Stepping through the results iteratively Numerical ordinary differential equations
- Central potential
- Jacobi coordinates
- Center of mass
- Reduced mass
- Magnitude Norm (mathematics)
- Centrifugal force#Other uses of the term Centrifugal force
- Centripetal force
- Inertial frame of reference
Extensions to include non-conservative forces
- Dissipation
- Viscous Viscosity
- Rayleigh John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Charge Electric charge
- Electrons Electron
- Up quarks Up quark
- Charged particle
- Electrical charge
- Electromagnetic field
- Magnetic vector potential
- Electric field
- Magnetic field
- Minimal coupling
- Rule of thumb
- Lorentz force
- Gauge transformation
- Canonical momentum
- Kinetic momentum
- Quantum mechanics
- Quantum field theory
Other contexts and formulations
- Legendre transformation
- Canonically conjugate Canonical coordinates
- Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics)
- Routhian mechanics
- Phasor
- Ostrogradsky instability
- Geometrical optics
- Special relativity
- Manifestly covariant
- Phase Phase (waves)
- Planck constant
- Principle of stationary action
- Constructive interference
- Wave functions Wave function
- Feynman Richard Feynman
- Path integral formulation
- Principle of least action
- Electrons
- Photons
- Fermat's principle
- Optics
- Classical field theory
- Lagrangian density
- Volume integral
- Volume element
- Conserved quantities Conserved quantity
- Symmetries Symmetry (physics)
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Nodes171
Edges170
Triples51
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011696
Components1
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related to Classical field theory · 6
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related to Relativistic formulation · 5
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see also · 4
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is a · 2
Lagrangian mechanics → alternate formulation of classical mechanics founded on the d'Alembert principle of virtual work, Lagrangian
related to Optics · 2
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related to Other contexts and formulations · 2
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| Lagrangian mechanics | is a | alternate formulation of classical mechanics founded on the d'Alembert principle of virtual work | 0.90 | text |
| Lagrangian mechanics | is a | Lagrangian | 0.90 | text |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Classical field theory | In Lagrangian | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Classical field theory | In | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Classical field theory | Associated | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Classical field theory | Lagrangian | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Classical field theory | Analogous | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Classical field theory | The Lagrangian | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Extensions | As | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Extensions | For | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Extensions | Lagrangian | 0.60 | section |
| Lagrangian mechanics | related to Extensions | Lorentz | 0.60 | section |
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