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000596140 245__ $$aThe lazy universe$$ban introduction to the principle of least action$$cby Jennifer Coopersmith
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000596140 260__ $$aOxford$$bOxford University Press$$c2017
000596140 300__ $$axii, 267 pages : illustrations, diagrams
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000596140 50500 $$tAntecedents
000596140 50500 $$tMathematics and physics preliminaries: of hills and plains and other things
000596140 50500 $$tThe principle of virtual work
000596140 50500 $$tD'Alembert's principle
000596140 50500 $$tLagrangian mechanics
000596140 50500 $$tHamiltonian mechanics
000596140 50500 $$tThe whole of physics
000596140 50500 $$tFinal words
000596140 520__ $$aThis book is about 'action' and the Principle of Least Action. These ideas are at the heart of physical science and engineering. Physics is well known as being concerned with grand conservatory principles (e.g. the conservation of energy) but equally important is the optimization principle (such as getting somewhere in the shortest time or with the least resistance). The book explains: why an optimization principle underlies physics, what action is, what 'the Hamiltonian' is, and how new insights into energy, space, and time arise. It assumes some background in the physical sciences, at the level of undergraduate science, but it is not a textbook. The requisite derivations and worked examples are given but may be skim-read if desired. The author draws from Cornelius Lanczos's book 'The Variational Principles of Mechanics' (1949 and 1970). The present book is no mere copy with the difficult bits left out. It aims to explain ideas rather than achieve technical competence, and to show how Least Action leads into the whole of physics.
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000596140 650_7 $$2DE-H253$$aHamiltonian mechanics$$eDDCTrigger
000596140 650_7 $$2DE-H253$$aPrinciple of stationary action
000596140 650_7 $$2DE-H253$$aPhysics (Philosophy)
000596140 650_7 $$2DE-H253$$aMathematical physics$$eDDCTrigger
000596140 650_7 $$2DE-H253$$aLaczos, Cornelius
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