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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2019/s7/3/a/solution
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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
/
2019
/
S7
/
3
/
a
/
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2026-10-25
For
a
regular
Lagrangian
, form the
canonical momenta
p
i
=
L
q
˙
i
, invert for
q
˙
i
(
q
,
p
,
t
)
, and take the
Legendre transform
H
=
∑
i
p
i
q
˙
i
−
L
. On the upper
cone
let
s
>
0
be
distance
along
a
generator from the apex and
ϕ
the
azimuth
. Then the horizontal
radius
is
s
sin
θ
and
height
is
s
cos
θ
, so
L
=
2
m
(
s
˙
2
+
s
2
sin
2
θ
ϕ
˙
2
)
−
m
g
s
cos
θ
,
p
s
=
m
s
˙
,
p
ϕ
=
m
s
2
sin
2
θ
ϕ
˙
.
(1)
Consequently
H
=
2
m
p
s
2
+
2
m
s
2
sin
2
θ
p
ϕ
2
+
m
g
s
cos
θ
.
(2)
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