(a) Find the total potential energy of the equilibrium configuration of the mass-spring chain in Exercise 6.1.1....

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(a) Find the total potential energy of the equilibrium configuration of the mass-spring chain in Exercise 6.1.1.
(b) Test the minimum principle by substituting three other possible displacements of the masses and checking that they all have larger potential energy.
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Applied Linear Algebra

ISBN: 978-0131473829

1st edition

Authors: Peter J. Olver, Cheri Shakiban

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