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The Lagrangian and Eulerian specifications of the flow field are sometimes loosely denoted as the Lagrangian and Eulerian frame of reference. However, in general both the Lagrangian and Eulerian specification of the flow field can be applied in any observer's frame of reference , and in any coordinate system used within the chosen frame of ...
The formulation of Lagrange's equations for this system yields six equations in the four Cartesian coordinates x i, y i (i = 1, 2) and the two Lagrange multipliers λ i (i = 1, 2) that arise from the two constraint equations.
A Lagrangian density L (or, simply, a Lagrangian) of order r is defined as an n-form, n = dim X, on the r-order jet manifold J r Y of Y. A Lagrangian L can be introduced as an element of the variational bicomplex of the differential graded algebra O ∗ ∞ ( Y ) of exterior forms on jet manifolds of Y → X .
Here, A stands for the electromagnetic potential 1-form, J is the current 1-form, F is the field strength 2-form and the star denotes the Hodge star operator. This is exactly the same Lagrangian as in the section above, except that the treatment here is coordinate-free; expanding the integrand into a basis yields the identical, lengthy expression.
As the manifold has dimension , the geodesic equations are a system of ordinary differential equations for the coordinate variables. Thus, allied with initial conditions, the system can, according to the Picard–Lindelöf theorem, be solved. One can also use a Lagrangian approach to the problem: defining
The objectivity of LCSs requires them to be invariant with respect to all possible observer changes, i.e., linear coordinate changes of the form = + (), where is the vector of the transformed coordinates; () is an arbitrary proper orthogonal matrix representing time-dependent rotations; and () is an arbitrary -dimensional vector representing ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... representing the degrees of freedom in the system, the Lagrangian is a function of the ... coordinates q 1, q 2, ...
Hamilton's principle states that the true evolution q(t) of a system described by N generalized coordinates q = (q 1, q 2, ..., q N) between two specified states q 1 = q(t 1) and q 2 = q(t 2) at two specified times t 1 and t 2 is a stationary point (a point where the variation is zero) of the action functional [] = ((), ˙ (),) where (, ˙,) is the Lagrangian function for the system.