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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 2 7 b Solution by
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The quadratic Lagrangian is diagonal in , so the Euler-Lagrange equations give two pure translations and one pure rotation. Their angular frequencies areA horizontal translation has ; a vertical translation has ; and the rotational mode has . Any fixed-direction translation is another choice in the same two-dimensional degenerate normal mode space. The rotation keeps the centre fixed.
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