The Variational Principles of Dynamics

by Boris A. Kupershmidt

Book Overview

Given a conservative dynamical system of classical physics, how does one find a variational principle for it? Is there a canonical recipe for such a principle? The case of particle mechanics was settled by Lagrange in 1788; this text treats continuous systems. Recipes devised are algebraic in nature, and this book develops all the mathematical tools found necessary after the minute examination of the adiabatic fluid dynamics in the introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9810236859
• ISBN13: 9789810236854
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"