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Two examples of the motion of an object through a medium against friction are discussed, showing that the equations of motion can be derived from a lagrangian, which is no longer the difference between the kinetic and potential energy of the system. The transposition of the same problems into the quantum world is also performed using the canonical formalism and the related difficulties are discussed.
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Angelo Tartaglia (1983) studied this question.
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