The physical meaning of Lagrange multipliers

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 709-718

  Karabulut, Hasan ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

PHYSICAL MEANING; RULE;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 33745312706     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/27/4/003     Document Type: Article

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