#+title:Lagrange Mechanics #+author: Thomas Albers Raviola #+date: 2022-10-01 #+setupfile: ../../math_options.org * Disclaimer This site as of now just a technology demonstration and its claims should not be taken as true (even though I myself am pretty confident they are) * Eliminating the constraints \begin{align*} m_i \ddot{x}_i &= F_i + \sum_{n=1}^R \lambda_n \pderiv{g_n}{x_i}\\ m_i \ddot{x}_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k} &= F_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k} + \sum_{n=1}^R \lambda_n \pderiv{g_n}{x_i} \pderiv{x_i}{q_k}\\ \sum_{i=1}^{3N} m_i \ddot{x}_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k} &= \sum_{i=1}^{3N}F_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k} + \sum_{n=1}^R \lambda_n \sum_{i=1}^{3N} \pderiv{g_n}{x_i} \pderiv{x_i}{q_k}\\ \sum_{i=1}^{3N} m_i \ddot{x}_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k} &= \sum_{i=1}^{3N}F_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k} + \sum_{n=1}^R \lambda_n \deriv{g_n}{q_k}\\ \sum_{i=1}^{3N} m_i \ddot{x}_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k} &= \sum_{i=1}^{3N}F_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k}\\ \deriv{}{t}\pderiv{(T - U)}{\dot{q}_k} - \pderiv{T}{q_k} &= \sum_{i=1}^{3N}F_i \pderiv{x_i}{q_k}\\ \deriv{}{t}\pderiv{(T - U)}{\dot{q}_k} - \pderiv{T}{q_k} &= - \sum_{i=1}^{3N}\pderiv{U}{x_i} \pderiv{x_i}{q_k}\\ \deriv{}{t}\pderiv{(T - U)}{\dot{q}_k} - \left(\pderiv{T}{q_k} - \pderiv{U}{q_k}\right) &= 0\\ \deriv{}{t}\pderiv{(T - U)}{\dot{q}_k} - \pderiv{T - U}{q_k} &= 0\\ \deriv{}{t}\pderiv{\mathcal{L}}{\dot{q}_k} - \pderiv{\mathcal{L}}{q_k} &= 0 \end{align*}