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This document discusses canonical transformations in classical mechanics. It begins by introducing canonical variables and the Hamiltonian formalism, where the Hamiltonian equations of motion are symmetric with respect to position (q) and momentum (p) variables. It then discusses that canonical transformations can change the canonical variables as long as the form of the Hamiltonian equations is preserved.
The document shows that the Euler-Lagrange equations are invariant under point transformations in configuration space. It extends this idea to phase space and derives conditions for a transformation to canonical variables (Q, P) to be canonical. Specifically, the transformation must be invertible and problem-independent, meaning (Q, P) are canonical for any system with the same degrees of freedom.
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This document discusses canonical transformations in classical mechanics. It begins by introducing canonical variables and the Hamiltonian formalism, where the Hamiltonian equations of motio…