<div dir="ltr"><div>So the difference is at a positive max when the ball hits the ground and at a negative maximum when the ball reaches its highest altitude? So how am I to understand positive and negative? vectors? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Instantaneious Action is at a minimum when the two terms are equal? <br></div><div><br></div><div>I have no intuitive sense of what is going on here. <br></div><div><br></div><div>But thanks for trying, Frank. <br></div><div><br></div><div>N<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>N<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM Nicholas Thompson <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Frank, <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks SO MUCH for forwarding this to me. To any other defrocked english majors on Friam, who have listened to these guys blather on about LaGrangians for all these years, I highly, HIGHLY recommend the video. Pretty short, AND, you might possibly, conceivably understand Steve Guerin when you get to the end. Yeah. Really. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Nick<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Frank Wimberly</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube<br>To: Nicholas Thompson <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto"><br><br><div>---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Frank Wimberly</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 12:51 PM<br>Subject: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube<br>To: Thompson, Nicholas <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net" target="_blank">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a>>, Barry MacKichan <<a href="mailto:barry.mackichan@mackichan.com" target="_blank">barry.mackichan@mackichan.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto"><a href="https://youtu.be/UuqpCBZoX3M" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/UuqpCBZoX3M</a><br><br><div>---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div>
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