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So the homework question is this. In a donut shaped space station that is rotating, what is the force on an astronaut inside the space station (he is on the outside) in both an inertial frame, and the frame of the space station. Intuitively in the frame of the space station the two forces...

thank you. I think my problem stems from me having difficulty wrapping my mind around this concept of changing the way we look at space.

I'm sorry but i was not referring to the Hamiltonian, but to Hamilton's principle. The principle that states that the path that a particle follows is such that the action integral of the Lagrangian from point 1 to point 2 is stationary. I am not sure if you were referring to that and i simply...

My teacher asked us too prove that Hamiltons principle proves that Newtons equations of motion hold for N particles. I'm not sure that i fully grasp the concept but this is my understanding so far: Using the lagrangian we can prove Newtons law for specific situations, however Hamiltons...