Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2013. № 1. Part 1. P. 179-183.
PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS OF PRINCIPLE OF LEAST ACTION
Terekhovich Vladislav Erikovich
St. Petersburg State University
Abstract. Principle of least action is at the center of the majority of natural science sections and is one of the most convenient tools for calculating the state and movement of objects, the author tells that a large number of philosophical and scientific problems are related to this principle that does not allow determining the reasons of its universality, its place in scientific laws system, as well as its connection with causation and reality, and formulates sixteen problems, which solution can lead to the invention of universal extremal principle.
Key words and phrases: вариационные принципы, аналитическая механика, обобщение физических законов, философия науки, variational principles, analytical mechanics, generalization of physical laws, philosophy of science
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