# Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics

- By: Douglas Cline
- Publisher: University of Rochester
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Classical_Mechanics/Variational_Principles_in_Classical_Mechanics_(Cline))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/phys-9557/pdf

This text emphasizes the important philosophical advantages of using variational principles, rather than the vectorial approach adopted by Newton, and attempts to bridge the chasm that exists between the approaches used in classical and quantam physics.