How can dissipative/friction terms be incorporated into a Lagrangian?
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Lagrangian and Hamiltonian EOM with dissipative force
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Work out friction coefficient using the two material's properties
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Equation of motion of a free particle
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Deriving the Lagrangian for a free particle
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Can Lagrangian be thought of as a metric?
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Can the kinetic energy be a function of the position vector?
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Transitioning between Lagrangian and Eulerian fluid variables
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How are constraint forces represented in Lagrangian mechanics?
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Derivation of Newton-Euler equations
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Noether Theorem and Energy conservation in classical mechanics
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Deriving Newton's Third Law from homogeneity of Space
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Do the same equations of motion imply the same Lagrangians?
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Do an action and its Euler-Lagrange equations have the same symmetries?
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Force as gradient of scalar potential energy
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Elementary argument for conservation laws from symmetries *without* using the Lagrangian formalism
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Why are there only derivatives to the first order in the Lagrangian?
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A problem from Evans' PDEs book: find a Lagrangian for a given Euler-Lagrange equation