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Past exam of the classical mechanics course of Part B of the physics course of the University of Oxford 2016 2 c Solution by
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With , the explicit energy and ordinary rotation generators just discussed areThe energy is constant because the drive factor no longer depends on time. For each rotation charge, differentiating and using gives .
These are angular momenta in the auxiliary three-dimensional space whose coordinates are the particle labels . They are not the physical spatial angular momentum ; generic do not have physical rotational invariance. They are precisely the equal-mass representatives of the weighted charges already present in solution. The new energy integral supplies the autonomous relative- dynamics not present in the driven case.
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