{"title":"Canonical Treatment of Elliptical Motion","authors":"Ola A. Jarab’ah","doi":"10.4236/apm.2023.139041","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The constrained motion of a particle on an elliptical path is studied using Hamiltonian mechanics through Poisson bracket and Lagrangian mechanics through Euler Lagrange equation using non-natural Lagrangian. We calculate the generalized momentum pθ and we find that this quantity is not conserved and the conjugate θ coordinate is not a cyclic coordinate.","PeriodicalId":43512,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Pure and Applied Mathematics","volume":"278 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Pure and Applied Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4236/apm.2023.139041","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The constrained motion of a particle on an elliptical path is studied using Hamiltonian mechanics through Poisson bracket and Lagrangian mechanics through Euler Lagrange equation using non-natural Lagrangian. We calculate the generalized momentum pθ and we find that this quantity is not conserved and the conjugate θ coordinate is not a cyclic coordinate.