[FRIAM] Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube

[Nicholas Thompson]

Diddle I say so?

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 2:17 AM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> The Action is the integral of the Lagrangian along the whole path, not
> just a single instant.
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 9:12 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> Instantaneious Action is at a minimum when the two terms are equal?
>>
>> I have no intuitive sense of what is going on here.
>>
>> But thanks for trying, Frank.
>>
>> N
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>>
>> N
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>> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM Nicholas Thompson <
>> thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Frank,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM
>>> Subject: Fwd: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle
>>> of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube
>>> To: Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Frank C. Wimberly
>>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
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>>> 505 670-9918
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>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 12:51 PM
>>> Subject: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of
>>> Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube
>>> To: Thompson, Nicholas <nickthompson at earthlink.net>, Barry MacKichan <
>>> barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/UuqpCBZoX3M
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Frank C. Wimberly
>>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>>
>>> 505 670-9918
>>> Santa Fe, NM
>>>
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