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Thales Castro
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Homework Statement
A particle moves on the ##xy## plane having it's trajectory described by the Hamiltonian
$$
H = p_{x}p_{y}cos(\omega t) + \frac{1}{2}(p_{x}^{2}+p_{y}^{2})sin(\omega t)
$$
a) Find a complete integral for the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation
b) Solve for ##x(t)## and ##y(t)## with ##x(0) = y(0) = 0##; ##\dot{x}(0) = 0##, ##\dot{y}(0) = v_{0}##.
Homework Equations
Hamilton-Jacobi equation, if ## H = H\left( \{ q_{i} \} , \{ p_{i} \} ,t \right) ##
$$
H\left( \{q_{i} \} , \{ \frac{\partial S}{\partial q_{I}} \} , t \right) + \frac{\partial S}{\partial t} = 0
$$
The Attempt at a Solution
a) First, because ## H ## doesn't depend explicitly on ##x## and ##y##, the Hamilton principal function ## S ## can be written as:
$$
S = \alpha_{1} x + \alpha_{2} y + \bar{S}(\alpha,t)
$$
Now, all we need for ##S## to be a complete integral is
$$
det\left( \frac{\partial^{2}S}{\partial q_{i} \partial {\alpha_{i}}} \right) \neq 0
$$
which is immediately satisfied by our ##S##.
Now, is there any way of choosing the easiest ##\bar{S}(t)## to find the equations of motion? I tried ## \bar{S}(t) = 0 ##, but the HJ Equation got me the trivial solution ## \alpha_{1} = \alpha_{2} = 0 ##. Any ideas? Thanks in advance