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physics.class-ph2023★ 3 cited
Intrinsic variational structure of higher-derivative formulations of classical mechanics
John W. Sanders
This paper investigates the geometric structure of higher-derivative formulations of classical mechanics. It is shown that every even-order formulation of classical mechanics highe…
physics.class-ph2021★ 11 cited
Fourth-order dynamics of the damped harmonic oscillator
John W. Sanders
It is shown that the classical damped harmonic oscillator belongs to the family of fourth-order Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillators. It follows that the solutions to the damped harmonic osc…