One of the annoying things about technical education is that we are expected to use terms that haven't been explained. Sometimes the explanations can be very helpful in understanding the thought process behind the material. I thought maybe there was a helpful explanation here.
The passage the...
That would make more sense.
I found the term "kinetic potential" on p. 229 of Morse and Feshbach, Volume I. Maybe it's a corruption of "kinetic - potential"?
New guy here. Dropped out of physics grad school twenty years ago. Every so often I have a question about physics, so I figured this was the place to go.
I made it to grad school in physics, and then my mind sort of melted and I chose another career. Lately I have been brushing up on math and physics for no clear reason. I decided to join this board so I would have a place to bring my strange questions.
Today I was reading up on Lagrangian...