A worked solution to Problem 3 of §5, The Lagrangian for a system of particles, in Chapter 1, The Equations of Motion, of L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Mechanics, 3rd ed. (1976). Solution by Pierre-Olivier Bolduc.
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