Lagrange's Equations Introduction - Generalized Coordinates, Constraints, Degrees of Freedom

Lagrange's Equations Introduction - Generalized Coordinates, Constraints, Degrees of Freedom

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Introduction to Lagrangian approach with initial example and motivation

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Introduction to Lagrangian approach with initial example and motivation

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Lagrange's Equations Introduction - Generalized Coordinates, Constraints, Degrees of Freedom

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  1. 1 Introduction to Lagrangian approach with initial example and motivation
  2. 2 Foundational topics of generalized coordinates, constraints, and degrees of freedom,
  3. 3 thinking through some examples
  4. 4 Nonholonomic constraints, which are mostly related to rolling without slipping.
  5. 5 the surprising dynamics of a shopping cart, called the "shopping cart instability"

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