WHAT IS HAMILTON'S PRINCIPLE?

1 January 1954

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

Vol. 7 (3) , 335-337
https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/7.3.335

Abstract

In non-holonomic systems the so-called work function does not express the whole of the forces acting; the Hölder-Voss modification of Hamilton's principle allows correctly for this fact.

Keywords

HAMILTON'S PRINCIPLE
HÖLDER VOSS
FORCES ACTING
HOLONOMIC SYSTEMS
PRINCIPLE ALLOWS
CALLED WORK
VOSS MODIFICATION
WORK FUNCTION

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