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 / 2 / 1 / Solution

The canonical momentum is $p_i=\partial L/\partial {\dot{q}}_i$. If the velocity-momentum relation can be locally inverted, the Legendre transform defines $H(q,p,t)={\sum }_i{p}_i{\dot{q}}_i-L$, with the velocities expressed in terms of $q,p,t$. Its differential isThe Euler-Lagrange equations then yield Hamilton's equations,A singular velocity Hessian instead requires a constrained-Hamiltonian treatment.