# variational principle

> a scientific principle used within the calculus of variations, which develops general methods for finding functions which extremize the value of quantities that depend upon those functions

**Wikidata**: [Q745215](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q745215)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational_principle)  
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