How to Find Nearest Points on a Curve to the Origin?

A Malik · 2012-07-20T04:54:50+00:00

How to Find the points on curve which are nearest to origin

Thread 'How does time derivative commute from one variable to another?'

I'm reviewing Meirovitch's "Methods of Analytical Dynamics," and I don't understand the commutation of the derivative from r to dr: $$ \mathbf{F} \cdot d\mathbf{r} = m \ddot{\mathbf{r}} \cdot d\mathbf{r} = m\mathbf{\dot{r}} \cdot d\mathbf{\dot{r}} $$

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