Let a one-parameter infinitesimal transformation be and suppose its change in the Lagrangian is a total derivative,
With canonical momentum , the chain rule and the Euler-Lagrange equations give, along a motion,
Comparison with the assumed total derivative proves Noether theorem:
The given Lagrangian has no explicit time dependence, so its energy function is conserved:
It is also invariant under the dilation : the velocities and all scale by the same factor, while is unchanged. The generator is and . Since
Noether's theorem supplies the second first integral
The integrals and are independent on an open dense subset of phase space.