I am in high school and I need to solve lots of problems which involve spring-block systems, pendulums, damped oscillations and so on. I am learning Lagrangian mechanics and I am already quite proficient in solving these problems with Newtonian mechanics by resolving the forces and by energy conservation. I think that the force method is time consuming. I have heard several people say that Lagrangian mechanics can very easily give the equations of motion and I was hoping someone with first-hand experience could tell if I should solve these types of problems with Lagrangian mechanics.
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