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In this chapter we show that the motions of a newtonian potential system are extremals of a variational principle, “Hamilton’s principle of least action.”
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Arnold, V.I. (1989). Variational principles. In: Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 60. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2063-1_3
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