The principle of least action : history and physics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Rojo, Alberto G. (Author), Bloch, Anthony, 1955- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:	Least action. Variational principles. Mechanics. Lagrange equations. Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Prehistory of variational principles
An excursio to Newton's Principia
The optical-mechanical analogy, Part I: D'Alembert, Lagrange, and the statics-dynamics analogy
The optical mechanical analogy, Part II: the Hamilton-Jacobi equation
Relativity and least action
The road to quantum mechanics.