Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
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e. Make a Lagrangian () for the system described with the irredundant generalized coordinates
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and compute the Lagrange equations from this Lagrangian. They should be the same equations as you derived for the same coordinates in part d.
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Eq. 1.95:
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Eq. 1.97:
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Consider a function
of, say, three arguments, and let
be a function of two arguments satisfying
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Then
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The substitution of a value in an argument commutes with the taking of the partial derivative with respect to a different argument. In deriving the Lagrange equations for
we can set
and
in the Lagrangian, but we cannot do this in deriving the Lagrange equations associated with
, because we have to take derivatives with respect to those arguments.
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— Me@2021-11-24 09:58:31 PM
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