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The aim of the present chapter will be to provide an alternative prescription to Newton’s for the writing down of the equations of motion. The guiding principles will be to base considerations on energy expressions as far as possible and to frame all equations to be equally applicable in any generalized co-ordinate system.
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Leech, J.W. (1965). The Lagrangian Formulation. In: Classical Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9169-5_3
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