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Classical mechanics an introductory course pdf 297p this note covers the following topics. In classical mechanics, rouths procedure or routhian mechanics is a hybrid formulation of lagrangian mechanics and hamiltonian mechanics developed by edward john routh. Correspondingly, the routhian is the function which replaces both the lagrangian and hamiltonian functions the routhian, like the hamiltonian, can be obtained from a legendre transform of the lagrangian, and has a similar. Indeed, although both approaches are formally equivalent, only the heisenberg approach to quantum mechanics has any similarity with classical mechanics. The teacher was a brilliant man but unfortunately could not convey the material to the students. R, where r3 represents space and r represents time.
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