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An NFT may or may not be awarded to the first person to post handwritten algebra solving this fun problem.

https://warpcast.com/eulerlagrange.eth/0xbbdb1f87

Btw I would like you to know I was nerdsniped by this problem by trying to use Lagrangian mechanics instead of the usual normal and centripedal forces, and I wanted to start it by assuming the skier was stuck on the sphere first. Turns out it's one of those awful pendulum problems.

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Oh boy, I just cheated and searched for this problem. Yeah I wouldn't have gotten it because I didn't know about the Generalized Lagrangian formulation.

Oh boy, I just cheated and searched for this problem. Yeah I wouldn't have gotten it because I didn't know about the Generalized Lagrangian formulation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P64-YBtxSAk

I'm probably going to read around and figure out how to do it in purely Lagrangian mechanics, and forcing some diff eqs in Mathematica just for fun. I'm obviously missing some energy somewhere related to the skier since they have some energy that keeps them on the sphere.