Talk:Routhian mechanics

Context
It is certainly lacking context; I will try and add some later, but I just got done with a mechanics final. I altered the math-stub to be a physics stub, as I believe that it is used more in that field. ^_^ --Starwed 15:16, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

More examples
With the structure of the article sorted, I intend to add more examples later today or tomorrow, no time right now.

A good one will be the heavy spinning top with the Euler angles as the coordinates, two will be cyclic, as given in Goldstein 2nd edition p.214 and Landau and Lifshitz 3rd edition p.135, along with a diagram.

Other examples with many degrees of freedom would be welcome. M&and;Ŝc2ħεИτlk 09:50, 30 July 2015 (UTC)


 * The new and current examples illustrate the point well enough now, compared to the very original one which just derived the Lagrangian equation and went in a circle with the Hamiltonian equations, and even admitted the Routhian approach offers nothing new. Even then there was no context about the Routhian formulation. Very unhelpful.


 * Still, the new ones are just for one particle. We could do with some for many degrees of freedom. M&and;Ŝc2ħεИτlk 23:21, 4 August 2015 (UTC)