You know, i studied Lagrangian Mechanics last semester but i don't think that i have gotten the real feel of it, especially why anyone would be interested in the difference of kinetic and potential energies instead of their sum
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Abide By Reason
NEWTON VS LAGRANGE
Isaac Newton was one of the greatest thinkers to ever live. He established the foundations of Classical Mechanics in his highly geometric work "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica". Just 100 years after him, Joseph-Louis Lagrange crowned Newton's achievements by codifying and systematizing them into essentially a purely mathematical theory, Lagrangian Mechanics. In his preface to "Mécanique Analytique", Lagrange proudly said "there are no diagrams in this work ... only algebraic operations". In my next video, I aim to help you gain a deep appreciation for the power of Lagrange's approach (will post sometime late next week).
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Dan
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