What's the intuition behind the definition of the Lagrangian?
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>L=K-U
Why is it defined this way? What's the intuition behind it? How could Lagrange come up with it? Why K-U and not U-K or does that make no fundamental difference and is simply a convention?
Why is it defined this way? What's the intuition behind it? How could Lagrange come up with it? Why K-U and not U-K or does that make no fundamental difference and is simply a convention?
