Timeline for Using Lagrangian mechanics instead of Newtonian mechanics
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| Jan 18, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | Christoph | Newton only works in inertial frames while Lagrangian formulations work in arbitrary frames of reference Newtonian mechanics works fine in non-inertial frames if you include fictious forces; if properly generalized, it is actually more general than Lagrangian mechanics as it does not require forces to be derived from a potential | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 2:32 | history | answered | theage | CC BY-SA 3.0 |