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wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad Reference frames, center of rotation, etc.I mean that one should first study kinematics and after that dynamics. Any motion is defined with respect to some frame only. So what? -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad Reference frames, center of rotation, etc.It is a very bad idea to throw kinematics and dynamics in the same heap -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad Reference frames, center of rotation, etc.I am afraid this notion is not completely formalized. Say a lab frame is an inertial frame you are sitting in and with respect to which... -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad Axial angular momentum calculation.It is a covector in the Lagrangian formalism but not in this context. Yes ##\frac{\partial L}{\partial \dot x}## is a covector on the... -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad Axial angular momentum calculation.That's wrong. Angular momentum is a vector. It is a pseudovector to be precise. Just by definition: ##\sum_k m_k\boldsymbol... -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad Properties of angular momentum.I can just explain what one actually should understand regarding this stuff. Assume we have a system of particles ##A_1,\ldots, A_N##... -
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So it's basically the "extra" velocity something like a car's wing mirror has if you subtract the car's COM's velocity? I don't know any... -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad Is energy really conserved?.In face-to-face communication I would first ask to write down the formula of kinetic energy of a rigid body and then to provide... -
wrobel replied to the thread Graduate Help in understanding this derivation of Lagrange Equations in Non-Holonomic case.There is a nice theorem. Let ##f,f_1,\ldots, f_n:X\to\mathbb{R}## be linear functionals defined on a vector space ##X##. Theorem. Assume... -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad Is energy really conserved?.Gyroscopic forces do not do work. Just by definition because the gyroscopic forces are ##Q_j=\omega_{ij}(t,x)\dot x^i,## where... -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad How to define a vector field?.I do not understand what this means. By definition a vector field on a manifold ##M## is a function ##v:M\to TM## such that ##v(x)\in T_xM## -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad How to define a vector field?.The set ##B\times \{v_p\,|\,p\in B\}## contains an element ##(p',v_p)## with ##p'\in B,\quad p'\ne p##. Such a definition of a vector... -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad How to define a vector field?.It depends on definitions. You can take this formula as a definition. On the other hand we can start with an ordinary differential... -
wrobel replied to the thread Undergrad How to define a vector field?.You can define a vector field as follows. Assume that in any coordinates ##x=(x^1,\ldots,x^m)## in a domain ##D\subset\mathbb{R}^m##... -
wrobel posted the thread Graduate A global version of the implicit function theorem in General Math.I do not know if this construction is contained in textbooks but it is surely contained in the collective unconscious :) Let...