By Robert K. Nesbet
This ebook consolidates and brings modern the variational concept and strategies at the moment utilized in many branches of theoretical physics and chemistry. The textual content surveys crucial rules and techniques, targeting conception as utilized in purposes instead of on high-quality issues of rigorous arithmetic. crucial recommendations are built in a standard notation and from a uniform severe viewpoint. Examples of vital purposes are reviewed in adequate aspect to supply the reader with a serious realizing of context and method.
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4 Jacobi’s principle 19 where t = dt/dτ . Limiting the discussion to conservative systems, with fixed energy E, the modified Lagrangian Lt does not depend on t. Hence the generalized momentum pt = ∂t∂ (Lt ) is a constant of motion. In detail, pt = L + i ∂L ∂ t ∂ q˙ i ∂t qi t pi q˙ i = −H = −E. =L− i Again anticipating relativistic dynamics, energy is related to momenta as time is related to spatial coordinates. Since time here is an “ignorable” variable, it can be eliminated from the dynamics by subtracting pt t from the modified Lagrangian and by solving H = E for t as a function of the spatial coordinates and momenta.
4 Jacobi’s principle As an introduction to relativistic dynamics, it is of interest to treat time as a dynamical variable rather than as a special system parameter distinct from particle coordinates. Introducing a generic global parameter τ that increases along any generalized system trajectory, the function t(τ ) becomes a dynamical variable. In special relativity, this immediately generalizes to ti (τ ) for each independent particle, associated with spatial coordinates xi (τ ). 4 Jacobi’s principle 19 where t = dt/dτ .
The variational formalism makes it possible to postulate a relativistic Lagrangian that is Lorentz invariant and reduces to Newtonian mechanics in the classical limit. Introducing a parameter m, the proper mass of a particle, or mass as measured in its own instantaneous rest frame, the Lagrangian for a free particle can be postulated to have the invariant form = 12 mu µ u µ = − 12 mc2 . The canonical momentum is pµ = mu µ and the Lagrangian equation of motion is d d pµ = (mu µ ) = 0, dτ dτ which clearly reduces to Newton’s equation when β → 0.