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Classical Mechanics can be formulated directly and generally by applying calculus to trajectories/curves in space. For concreteness and an alternate presentation, we describe the formulation backwards from the first few pages of Landau's mechanics.


=== Initial Lagrangian Framing ===
=== Initial Lagrangian Framing ===