The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 1954 7(3):335-337; doi:10.1093/qjmam/7.3.335
© 1954 by Oxford University Press
WHAT IS HAMILTON'S PRINCIPLE?
HAROLD JEFFREYS
(
St. John's College Cambridge
)
In non-holonomic systems the so-called work function does not express the whole of the forces acting; the Hölder-Voss modification of Hamilton's principle allows correctly for this fact.

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