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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/s7/3/4/solution
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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
/
2015
/
S7
/
3
/
4
/
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2026-10-25
For
L
i
=
ϵ
ijk
q
j
p
k
, the canonical
Poisson brackets
give
{
L
i
,
L
j
}
=
ϵ
ijk
L
k
. Consequently projections onto fixed axes
n
,
m
obey
{
n
⋅
L
,
m
⋅
L
}
=
(
n
×
m
)
⋅
L
.
(1)
If the two original projections are conserved and the axes are linearly independent, the preceding
Jacobi identity
argument makes the projection along
n
×
m
conserved
as
well. The
vectors
n
,
m
,
n
×
m
form
a
basis
of
three-dimensional space
, so every fixed-axis projection is
a
linear combination
of these
conserved quantities
.
Angular momentum
is therefore conserved along every axis.
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