The physical meaning of Lagrange multipliers

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/4/003zbMATH Open1165.70306arXiv0705.0609OpenAlexW2013498286MaRDI QIDQ5484492FDOQ5484492

Publication date: 17 August 2006

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A rule to assign a physical meaning to Lagrange multipliers is discussed. Examples from mechanics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics are given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0609

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60)

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