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The goal of a physical theory is not only to give a precise mathematical formulation of observed phenomena but also to describe these effects with a minimum of fundamental postulates and in the most unified manner possible. Hamilton’s principle, which adopts a variational approach, is, in this sense, more fundamental than the Newtonian formulation.
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Shivamoggi, B.K. (1997). Hamiltonian Dynamics. In: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaotic Phenomena. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2442-5_4
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