SMMDS Lecture 2: Lagrangian Mechanics I

By Ming Chen

Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

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This lecture introduce a different formulism of classical mechanics: Lagrangian mechanics. Lagrangian mechanics provides a systematic way to generate time evolution equations for a many-body system.

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  • Ming Chen (2024), "SMMDS Lecture 2: Lagrangian Mechanics I," https://nanohub.org/resources/39332.

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  1. Classical Mechanics
  2. Lagrangian mechanics
  3. molecular dynamics (MD)
  4. statistical mechanics