First-order equations of motion for classical mechanics

DOI10.1063/1.525653zbMath0532.70009MaRDI QIDQ3315056

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 motion; Newtonian mechanical system without Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70H05: Hamilton's equations

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

70G10: Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics

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• Generalized Hamiltonian dynamics
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