Hamiltonian mechanics

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Hamiltonian mechanics by Wikipedia Bot 0 1970-01-01
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Hamiltonian mechanics by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01
Equivalent to Lagrangian mechanics but formulated in a different way.
TODO understand original historical motivation, www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXHoWwBcDc says it is from optics.
Intuitively, the Hamiltonian is the total energy of the system in terms of arbitrary parameters, a bit like Lagrangian mechanics.
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