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In the lagrangian formalism, we treat the position ##q## and the velocity ##\dot q## as dependent variables and talk about configuration space, which is just the space of positions. In the hamiltonian formalism we talk about canonical positions and momenta, and we consider them independent. Is the independence based on the additional parameters in momenta (namely the mass), or is it based on the fact that the canonical momentum is separate from the physical momentum?
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