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The uniform-force model: translation and boost charges fail across the field while the energy survives, with exact rates and a numerical instance
A worked model check inside the framework: the one-label global potential model (d=0) with U = -m g . x, its explicit maximal motion, the failure of the translation and boost charges in directions with a nonzero component along the field, with the exact rates predicted by the sharpness clauses, a numerical instance at an explicit time, and the survival of the mechanical energy because the potential has no explicit time dependence. The boost direction is dimensionless and its family parameter has velocity units, so the boost charge has mass-length units. All values are model values in a declared idealization; the example reports no measurement and asserts no property of any field of nature.
Example
Work in the one-label uniform-force model of The uniform-force model: explicit global motion of a label under a constant declared field, with uniqueness, dimensions and frame covariance: the force branch of Adopted force model: force maps, the equation of motion, additive composition of force contributions and frame covariance with , mass , time window , configuration domain and force map for a declared constant parameter of dimension (Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework). Adopt the potential presentation
of class and dimension , so that and the model is a global potential model in the sense of Potential presentations of a force model, potential and mechanical energy, closed versus exact force fields, local potentials and equipotential level sets; declare a nonzero dimensionless and consider the motion. For the boost family, its parameter is measured in velocity units, so has units and has units . For the time-translation datum use a parameter measured in seconds, so its generator value is dimensionless and its charge is measured in joules. Consider the motion
with , which is the unique maximal motion through by The uniform-force model: explicit global motion of a label under a constant declared field, with uniqueness, dimensions and frame covariance. Verify:
- the directional derivative of the potential is , so the translation condition of Translation symmetry of the model's Lagrangian and conservation of total momentum: exact hypothesis, conservation and its sharpness clause 1 holds exactly when ;
- the momentum component is , hence constant on exactly when , with rate otherwise;
- the boost charge is , with rate ;
- the mechanical energy is , constant on , and the potential has no explicit time dependence, so the time-translation identity of Time translation and the mechanical energy of the model: conservation in the autonomous global potential branch and the sharp failure for a time-dependent potential clause 1 holds;
- for the numerical instance , , , and : at one has in , , and , while the component along is constant at .
All values are model values of the declared idealization: the constant field is an adopted approximation of an external influence and no measurement is reported.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The one-label uniform-force model, the potential presentation , the vector , the constants and the motion .
The uniform-force model and its motions (The uniform-force model: explicit global motion of a label under a constant declared field, with uniqueness, dimensions and frame covariance, Adopted force model: force maps, the equation of motion, additive composition of force contributions and frame covariance, The associated first-order system, motions, maximal motions and the Newtonian flow of a force model): satisfies the standing hypotheses; the displayed quadratic curve is the unique maximal motion through and is defined on all of ; a motion satisfies .
The presentation (Potential presentations of a force model, potential and mechanical energy, closed versus exact force fields, local potentials and equipotential level sets, The action functional of a force model with a potential presentation: the mechanical Lagrangian, its chart instance and its dimensions): is with , so and ; the mechanical Lagrangian is , and the mechanical energy function is .
Translation and boost statements (Translation symmetry of the model's Lagrangian and conservation of total momentum: exact hypothesis, conservation and its sharpness, The Galilean boost charge of the model: exact condition, uniform centre-of-mass motion, the induced motions and the boundary of the conservation law): under the differential condition with the component is constant along every motion; with dimensionless and a velocity-valued boost parameter, the boost datum satisfies the model identity exactly under the same condition, and then is constant with dimension , while its general rate has dimension .
The energy statement (Time translation and the mechanical energy of the model: conservation in the autonomous global potential branch and the sharp failure for a time-dependent potential, Continuous symmetries of the mechanical Lagrangian of a potential presentation: symmetry data, the Noether identity, the charge and its dimensions): the datum satisfies the model identity exactly when , and then the mechanical energy is constant along every motion with .
Calculus (Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , For a natural the function is differentiable everywhere with derivative ; for it is the constant , with derivative ; for a natural the function is differentiable at every with derivative ; consequently every polynomial function is differentiable at every real, with the derivative computed term by term, The derivative and the Riemann integral of a vector-valued function: an intrinsic derivative and a componentwise integral, The Euclidean inner product on , The Jacobian matrix of partial derivatives and the gradient in the scalar-valued case, Directional derivatives and partial derivatives of a map , Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms, Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length, Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework, Configuration domain of labeled particles: open admissible sets, regular holonomic constraints and the mass operator): polynomials in differentiate by the power rule; the Euclidean inner product is bilinear; the dimensions of are and, for the dimensionless direction with a velocity-valued boost parameter, those of are .
Verification
Clause 1: differentiating in the configuration slot gives , hence for every , which vanishes identically exactly when ; by [F3] this is precisely the differential translation condition.
Clause 2: by [F1] the velocity is , so and ; this is constant in exactly when , and otherwise its derivative is .
Clause 3: by the definition of the boost charge and clause 2, whose derivative is , in agreement with the general rate of [F3] because in one label.
Clause 4: the potential has , so the time-translation datum satisfies the model identity by [F4]; directly, constant on , consistent with the conservation clause of [F4].
Clause 5, numerical instance: with , , and the velocity is and at one has in ; with clause 2 gives , clause 3 gives and ; with one has , so for every .
Clauses 1-5 are steps 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 2.1; the example exhibits, on explicit data of an adopted model, a force law that breaks the translation and boost charges across the field while the autonomous potential preserves the mechanical energy, and it reports no measurement.
Remarks
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Reading of the failure. For this balance comparison, declare the external-plus-pair presentation of Restricted interaction models: pair decompositions, antisymmetry and centrality options, potential forces and the gravitational branch clause (i) with , . This map is constant, so it satisfies the standing regularity. There are no pairs for : the pair sum is zero and the antisymmetry condition of clause (ii)1 is vacuous. Thus on the whole state domain, and the total external force along the motion is . The rate of the momentum component is the component of the external force along , in agreement with the balance identity of Total momentum balance and centre-of-mass equation for a model with antisymmetric pair forces read on this single label; the Noether sharpness clause and the balance describe the same failure from different starting points. Directions perpendicular to retain a conserved momentum component, so the model retains a two-dimensional family of translation charges when , while failing the third. When , all three components are conserved.
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Energy versus momentum. The same model conserves its mechanical energy: the potential is autonomous, and the time-translation datum is available. The example therefore exhibits the independence of the charges of this page: some symmetry data of the framework's model classes hold here and others do not, and the conservation statements must be applied one datum at a time.
Depends on
Total momentum balance and centre-of-mass equation for a model with antisymmetric pair forces
Restricted interaction models: pair decompositions, antisymmetry and centrality options, potential forces and the gravitational branch
The uniform-force model: explicit global motion of a label under a constant declared field, with uniqueness, dimensions and frame covariance
Translation symmetry of the model's Lagrangian and conservation of total momentum: exact hypothesis, conservation and its sharpness
The Galilean boost charge of the model: exact condition, uniform centre-of-mass motion, the induced motions and the boundary of the conservation law
Time translation and the mechanical energy of the model: conservation in the autonomous global potential branch and the sharp failure for a time-dependent potential
Continuous symmetries of the mechanical Lagrangian of a potential presentation: symmetry data, the Noether identity, the charge and its dimensions
Potential presentations of a force model, potential and mechanical energy, closed versus exact force fields, local potentials and equipotential level sets
Adopted force model: force maps, the equation of motion, additive composition of force contributions and frame covariance
The associated first-order system, motions, maximal motions and the Newtonian flow of a force model
The action functional of a force model with a potential presentation: the mechanical Lagrangian, its chart instance and its dimensions
Configuration domain of labeled particles: open admissible sets, regular holonomic constraints and the mass operator
Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework
The Euclidean inner product on
Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms
The Jacobian matrix of partial derivatives and the gradient in the scalar-valued case
Directional derivatives and partial derivatives of a map
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
For a natural the function is differentiable everywhere with derivative ; for it is the constant , with derivative ; for a natural the function is differentiable at every with derivative ; consequently every polynomial function is differentiable at every real, with the derivative computed term by term
The derivative and the Riemann integral of a vector-valued function: an intrinsic derivative and a componentwise integral
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- I. Stewart, Advanced Classical Mechanics (MIT 8.09/8.309 Fall 2014 course text), Section 1.5, printed pages 25-26 (PDF pages 28-29), Eqs. (1.95)-(1.97): after release from a sphere, the constant-g potential mgz gives free horizontal motion and quadratic vertical free fall
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (Cambridge lecture notes, January 2015 printing), Section 2.4.1, printed pages 24-26 (PDF pages 30-32): translation invariance as the source of momentum conservation, so that a force law breaking translation invariance breaks the momentum charge
- K. K. Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics, Part CM: Classical Mechanics (title page last edited September 1, 2026), Section 2.3, chapter pages 7-10 (PDF pages 25-28): the distinction between a conserved Hamiltonian function and the mechanical energy in a driven description