Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
303 | AMA | February 2025
Sean Carroll
And that is how Hamiltonian mechanics works. Lagrangian mechanics is based on what's called the principle of least action. You may have heard about it. And it says, don't tell me exactly the state of the system to start. Tell me the configuration of the system. Tell me the positions, but not the velocities, for example, of the system.
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