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Until now, we have assumed, within the framework of Newtonian mechanics, that we know all of the forces which act on a particle when constructing its equation of motion. This knowledge was necessary in order to produce a well-defined system of differential equations.
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Honerkamp, J., Römer, H. (1993). Lagrangian Methods in Classical Mechanics. In: Theoretical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77984-8_3
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