Timeline for Why do we integrate over the Lagrangian to get action?
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| Feb 24, 2020 at 13:59 | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | Note that the word infinitesimal is often slippery. | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 12:39 | comment | added | Akshat Sharma | But can't we derive the EL equations by considering the variation of action over an infinitesimal time interval $t_1$ to $t_1+\epsilon$ ? I think we would get the the incorrect equation, but why is that the case? | |
| Feb 23, 2020 at 20:07 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2020 at 18:07 | history | answered | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |