Self-Assessment Quiz

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The learning objectives of this self-assessment are to help you validate your understanding of the concepts relating to to generalized coordinates, feasible paths through a generalized coordinate system, and the principle of stationary action.

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Which of the following is the name given to a mapping from functions to real values? *

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Function

Loop

Functional

Vector

String

What is the name of the function which, when the action integral is applied to it, makes the action integral extremal? *

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The minimizer

The Lagrangian

The Noetherian

The minimal

The minimum

The Gaussian

The Min-Min

Which of the following the closest analogy to the function which makes the action integral extremal *

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The limits of an integral

The integral of a function

The stationary points (such as maxima or minima) of a function

The name of a function

The number of arguments of a function

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