Saturday, August 6, 2016

special relativity - Why lagrangian is negative number?


In the special relativistic action for a massive point particle,


$$\int_{t_i}^{t_f}\mathcal {L}dt,$$


why is the Lagrangian



$$\mathcal {L}=-E_o\gamma^{-1}$$


a negative number?




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