Talk:Lagrangian mechanics

Would like to rewrite. The current article follows the historical development of Lagrangian mechanics which isn't the order which is most useful for teaching purposes. Also there should probably be links to example problems.

Wikipedia is going to get really cool once MIT puts more of their Open Courseware online.

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A rewrite would be good. I wrote the article while going through Goldstein, thus the lengthy derivations which aren't very useful and in fact hurts the article. Also, go ahead and tinker with Hamiltonian, which maybe needs to be split up into Hamiltonian mechanics for classical physics and Hamiltonian for quantum mechanics. Good luck. -- CYD

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A lot of TeX is needed here.

Be bold. -- CYD

Why does it say Langrangian mechanics was demonstrated by Langrange? Wouldn't "introduced" be a more appropriate word? "Demonstrated", in reference to theorems or other propositions, means proved. It is not said of whole theories, but of propositions. Michael Hardy 01:23 Mar 19, 2003 (UTC)