Re: mechanical systems

From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 10/27/04


Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:07:47 GMT

madhuresh wrote:
> I have started reading Landau's course in theoretical physics and came
> across Hamilton's Principle. In short, it says that every mechanical
> system has a function associated with it whose integral should be
> minimum in any mechanical process with given initial conditions.
> My question is, "what is a mechanical system"?

http://www.dictionary.net/mechanical+system



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