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This chapter is intended as a brief summary of those aspects of mechanics which stem immediately from Newton’s laws and which are particularly important in the development of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations.
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Leech, J.W. (1965). Fundamental Ideas. In: Classical Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9169-5_2
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