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Charles Torre

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2024

First Page

1

Last Page

22

Abstract

We consider Lagrangians for classical mechanics which depend upon an arbitrary number of time derivatives of the configuration variables. From the boundary term in the first variation of the Lagrangian we derive the Ostrogradsky formulas which define the Hamiltonian formulation of mechanical systems.

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