When is Hamilton's Principle an Extremum Principle

• 1 November 1974
• journal article
• Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in AIAA Journal
• Vol. 12  (11) , 1573-1576
• https://doi.org/10.2514/3.49547

Abstract

Keywords

• LINEAR SYSTEM
• EXTREME VALUE
• OSCILLATIONS
• MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE
• CALCULUS OF VARIATION
• BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM