So the difference is at a positive max when the ball hits the ground and at a negative maximum when the ball reaches its highest altitude? So how am I to understand positive and negative? vectors?
Instantaneious Action is at a minimum when the two terms are equal? I have no intuitive sense of what is going on here. But thanks for trying, Frank. N N On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Frank, > > Thanks SO MUCH for forwarding this to me. To any other defrocked english > majors on Friam, who have listened to these guys blather on about > LaGrangians for all these years, I highly, HIGHLY recommend the video. > Pretty short, AND, you might possibly, conceivably understand Steve Guerin > when you get to the end. Yeah. Really. > > Nick > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM > Subject: Fwd: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of > Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube > To: Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> > > > > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 12:51 PM > Subject: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least > Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube > To: Thompson, Nicholas <nickthomp...@earthlink.net>, Barry MacKichan < > barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> > > > https://youtu.be/UuqpCBZoX3M > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM >
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