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A Misconception about the Relativistic Lagrangian
Letter/Communication   Peer reviewed

A Misconception about the Relativistic Lagrangian

Ezzat G Bakhoum
Galilean electrodynamics, Vol.17(4), p.72
07/2006

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Abstract

Excerpt - A formulation for the relativistic Lagrangian was never given by Einstein, Lorentz, or Poincaré, but was actually derived by a number of modern authors [1, 2]. This letter discusses a misconception concerning the currently accepted formulation: it is missing an important constant of integration.

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