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Chapter 5 AM: Canonical Transformation

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The main objective of this course is to introduce students of physics to the 'modern' formalism of classical (or Newtonian) mechanics, especially Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. An important part of the course will focus on introducing the variational methods and principles in mechanics, or m...

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Mechanical s DOF
Holonomic conservative Audio 1

TH
Hamilton's equations
ofa mechanicalsystem
fipi
IPi where H H g Ft


Consider a coordinate transformation
It
Qi Qi gift What are the conditionsthat this

I haveto satisfy inorderthat
Pi Pi g pi t Hamilton's equations
inthe new variable
maintiontheir canonical form




Qi Jlt i Die 211
JP Jai
where H'sICE Et
isthe new Hamiltonian


A transformation satisfying
therequired
conditions is called canonical

obtained earlierthe Hamiltonian's ta 2

We
equations through a principle ofleastaction 0 85 8 flat 8 Epida Hdt
t I

,Hamilton's equations
inthe new variables Audio 2
must also follow from the principle
of
leastaction

85 Edt
SITEPiQi H'Idt

since the new Hamilton's equations

describethe same the
system corresponding

Lagrangefunction I must be related
tobe old Lagrangian
by
DE
dt

etagangest


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thesame
coordinates andtimedescribe
ofmechanical
system



Remark The
Lagrangian of a system is
upto additive
of a total time
determined

derivative
of an arbitraryfunction oftime
and coordinates

,proof Audio3


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and
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dt
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