By Jerrold E. Marsden
ISBN-10: 0521428440
ISBN-13: 9780521428446
Using geometric tools in classical mechanics has confirmed fruitful, with broad purposes in physics and engineering. during this booklet, Professor Marsden concentrates on those geometric facets, specifically on symmetry thoughts. the details he covers are: the soundness of relative equilibria, that's analyzed utilizing the block diagonalization approach; geometric stages, studied utilizing the aid and reconstruction strategy; and bifurcation of relative equilibria and chaos in mechanical platforms. A unifying subject for those issues is equipped by way of relief conception, the linked mechanical connection and methods from dynamical structures. those tools may be utilized to many regulate and stabilization occasions, and this can be illustrated utilizing inflexible our bodies with inner rotors, and using geometric levels in mechanical platforms. to demonstrate the above rules and the facility of geometric arguments, the writer reports quite a few particular structures, together with the double round pendulum and the classical rotating water molecule.
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In coordinates, (ξ 1 , . . , ξ m ) on g and corresponding dual coordinates (µ1 , . . 2) a c here Cbc are the structure constants of g defined by [ea , eb ] = Cab ec , where (e1 , . . , em ) is the coordinate basis of g and where, for ξ ∈ g, we write ξ = ξ a ea , and for µ ∈ g∗ , µ = µa ea , where (e1 , . . , em ) is the dual basis. 2) appears explicitly in Lie [1890, Section 75]. 2) is determined by understanding Lie– Poisson reduction, which can be summarized as follows. 3) ρ : T ∗ G → g∗ be defined by pg → (Te Rg )∗ pg ∈ Te∗ G ∼ = g∗ .
1) is exact. 1) is the manner in which ∆θ is split into two parts. The term Λ is purely geometric and so is called the geometric phase. It does not depend on the energy of the system or the period of motion, but rather on the fraction of the surface area of the sphere Pµ that is enclosed by the trajectory Π(t). 1) is known as the dynamic phase and depends explicitly on the system’s energy and the period of the reduced trajectory. Geometrically we can picture the rigid body as tracing out a path in its phase space.
On R3 × R3 , that is, on (x, v)-space, consider the symplectic form e ΩB = m(dx ∧ dx˙ + dy ∧ dy˙ + dz ∧ dz) ˙ − B. 1). Thus the equations of motion for a particle in a magnetic field are Hamiltonian, with energy equal to the kinetic energy and with the symplectic form ΩB . If B = dA; that is, B = ∇ × A, where A is a one-form and A is the associated vector field, then the map (x, v) → (x, p) where p = mv + eA/c pulls back the canonical form to ΩB , as is easily checked. 1) are also Hamiltonian relative to the canonical bracket on (x, p)-space with the Hamiltonian HA = e 1 p − A 2.