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Past exam of the physics 1 paper of the University of Oxford 2017 resit 6 Solution by
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Write for the imposed constant angular velocity. In inertial polar coordinates, the bead has . Its constrained Lagrangian isThe reduced Lagrangian has no explicit time dependence, so its Lagrangian energy function is conserved:This is the Jacobi integral , since the bead's actual inertial energy and axial angular momentum areThe motor maintaining the stick's angular velocity supplies torque and does work. Indeed , generally nonzero. A time-independent reduced Lagrangian therefore need not imply conservation of the bead's inertial kinetic energy when its imposed constraint is moving.
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