Principles of Least Action and of Least Constraint
Résumé
The present contribution describes the evolution of two major extremum principles in mechanics proposed in the 18 th and the first half of the 19 th century, namely the Principle of Least Action associated with the name Maupertuis and Gauss’s Principle of Least Constraint. We will briefly mention the d’Alembert Principle strongly related to the Principle of Gauss.
Domaines
Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]
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