Stationary action principle

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Stationary action principle by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
As mentioned on the Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stationary_Action_Principle&oldid=1020413171, "principle of least action" is not accurate since it could not necessarily be a minima, we could just be in a saddle-point.
The Stationary Action Principle, also known as the principle of least action, is a fundamental concept in the field of physics and calculus of variations. It asserts that the path taken by a physical system between two states is the one for which the action integral is stationary (usually a minimum), meaning that any small variation of that path will result in no first-order change in the action.

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