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In physics and engineering, the most readily visualized examples are usually those in classical mechanics. The starting point at the elementary level is New-ton’s second law, while at the more advanced level one can form the Lagrangian L = T − V where T is the kinetic energy and V the potential energy. We shall apply both approaches to nonlinear mechanics where the force is a nonlinear function of the displacement and, perhaps, the velocity.
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Enns, R.H., McGuire, G.C. (2000). Nonlinear Systems. Part I. In: Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1322-2_2
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