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Aren't the virtual work/virtual power principles in mechanics simply solving for the vector differential equation of motion in a preferred direction?

My conceptual understanding of the virtual work/virtual power principles is that, by hypothesizing "virtual displacements"/"virtual velocities", one can solve the equations of ...
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