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    Canonical transformations allow changing coordinates such that all new coordinates are cyclic, simplifying solving equations of motion. Canonical transformations preserve the Hamiltonian and involve a point transformation from old coordinates (q, p) to new coordinates (s, α) such that the Lagrangian retains its form under the transformation. In the new coordinates, the generalized momenta are constants and the Hamiltonian depends only on these constants, allowing equations of motion to be trivially integrated.

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    Canonical transformations allow changing coordinates such that all new coordinates are cyclic, simplifying solving equations of motion. Canonical transformations preserve the Hamiltonian and involve a point transformation from old coordinates (q, p) to new coordinates (s, α) such that the Lagrangian retains its form under the transformation. In the new coordinates, the generalized momenta are constants and the Hamiltonian depends only on these constants, allowing equations of motion to be trivially integrated.

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    Canonical transformations allow changing coordinates such that all new coordinates are cyclic, simplifying solving equations of motion. Canonical transformations preserve the Hamiltonian and involve a point transformation from old coordinates (q, p) to new coordinates (s, α) such that the Lagrangian retains its form under the transformation. In the new coordinates, the generalized momenta are constants and the Hamiltonian depends only on these constants, allowing equations of motion to be trivially integrated.

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    Canonical transformations allow changing coordinates such that all new coordinates are cyclic, simplifying solving equations of motion. Canonical transformations preserve the Hamiltonian and involve a point transformation from old coordinates (q, p) to new coordinates (s, α) such that the Lagrangian retains its form under the transformation. In the new coordinates, the generalized momenta are constants and the Hamiltonian depends only on these constants, allowing equations of motion to be trivially integrated.

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    Canonical transformations

    Let us consider a system of n degrees of freedom and then using Hamilton’s


    equations of motion we can write that
    ∂H
    q˙i =
    ∂pi
    and
    ∂H
    ṗi = −
    ∂qi
    where i=1,2,,,,n if all the coordinates are cyclic then ṗi = 0 ∀i This implies
    we can write pi = αi
    ∴ pi = α i
    since the generalised momentum is conserved we can write it as equal to some
    constant α then we can rewrite the Hamiltonian as a function of αi That is
    H = H(α1 , α2 , , , αn )
    ∂H
    =⇒ q˙i = = ωi
    ∂pi
    by integrating with respect to time we can get qi (t) which is given by

    qi (t) = ωi t + qi0

    Are there any transformations which helps to change to new coordinates


    in which every variable is cyclic,then the problems become trivial and can
    be solved as above Point transformation We have a Lagrangian of the
    system L(q, q̇, t) We want to change to a new coordinate system in which
    the Lagrangian is written as L0 (s, ṡ, t) One of the important features of the
    Lagrangian is that it does not change its form when changing from one co-
    ordinate to the other and therefore L̃

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