Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4606360 Differential Geometry and its Applications 2011 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

We give a coordinate-independent version of the smallest set of necessary and sufficient conditions for a given system of second-order ordinary differential equations to be of Lagrangian form with additional dissipative forces.

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Second-order dynamical systems of Lagrangian type with dissipation
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