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Potential in Relativistic Scalar Field Theory
My intention is to establish a Soliton equation. I have cropped a page from Mark Srednicki page no 576.
I have understand the equation (92.1) but don't understand that how they guessed the ...
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Why can't we ascribe a (possibly velocity dependent) potential to a dissipative force?
Sorry if this is a silly question but I cant get my head around it.
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Motivation for Potentials
This is a hypothetical question about "pedagogy". Let's say I am trying to take someone who has just a very small amount of knowledge about Newtonian mechanics and convince them that the Lagrangian ...
