The Hamiltonian Formalism

Tong, D. (2022). The Hamiltonian Formalism. Lectures on Classical Dynamics.

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Book chapter

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Review or monograph

Year

2022

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https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/dynamics/dynhtml/S4.html

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Domain-specific

• Equations of Motion
  • These are ordinarily coupled second-order differential equations. Hamiltonian mechanics instead uses first-order equations for conjugate pairs \((q_i,p_i)\), requiring one initial value for each coordinate and momentum.

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