First-order equations of motion for classical mechanics

DOI10.1063/1.525653MaRDI QIDQ3315056zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ray Skinner

Publication date 1983

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525653

zbMATH Keywords

global canonical first-order equation of motionNewtonian mechanical system without Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

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