On virtual displacement and virtual work in Lagrangian dynamics

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 311-329

  Ray, Subhankar ^a,b   Shamanna, J ^c  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONSTRAINED MECHANICAL PROBLEM; D'ALEMBERT'S PRINCIPLE; GENERALIZED COORDINATES; VIRTUAL DISPLACEMENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33244454476     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/27/2/014     Document Type: Article

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