Condition for minimal Harmonic Oscillator Action
Classical Physics
2021-04-16 v1
Abstract
We provide an elementary proof that the action for the physical trajectory of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator is guaranteed to be a minimum if and only if , where is the elapsed time and is the oscillator's natural frequency.
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@article{arxiv.2104.07475,
title = {Condition for minimal Harmonic Oscillator Action},
author = {Marco Moriconi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07475},
year = {2021}
}
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