The Action is the integral of the Lagrangian along the whole path, not just a single instant.
On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 9:12 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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