Variational principle for a damped, quadratically interacting particle chain with nonconservative forcing
Abstract
A method for designing variational principles for the dynamics of a possibly dissipative and non-conservatively forced chain of particles is demonstrated. Some qualitative features of the formulation are discussed.
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