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Positive kinetic metric: the fibre map , the Hamiltonian and Hamilton's equations on explicit one- and two-label data
A worked check of the Legendre transform on the model class with positive definite kinetic operator: a one-label particle of mass m in a uniform downward potential field, with the explicit momentum p = mv, Hamiltonian H = |p|^2/(2m) + mg x_3, Hamilton equations, and the exact falling solution through a prescribed initial datum; and a two-label free model with unequal masses, where the mass operator is not a scalar and the inverse branch is computed entrywise. All quantities are model values of the declared idealizations; no measurement is reported.
Example
(a) One label in a uniform field. Declare the one-label model of 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 potential with constant acceleration magnitude , , read in , with no residual forces; the force map is and the mechanical Lagrangian is (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). Then:
- the momentum of the presentation is (The momentum of a potential presentation: the fibre derivative of the mechanical Lagrangian, the Cartesian momentum Mv and generalized momenta), the presentation is hyperregular on the Cartesian chart with inverse branch (Every potential presentation is hyperregular in its charts, with inverse branch (or ) and the explicit kinetic-plus-potential Hamiltonian), and the Hamiltonian is
- Hamilton's equations , read , , so that : the system is equivalent to the model's equation of motion and the potential is the uniform field (Hamilton's equations of the mechanical presentation are equivalent to the model's equation of motion, with residual forces as momentum sources and the coordinate form on every chart).
- for every datum , where is the initial position (metres) and the initial coordinate velocity (metres per second), the curve is the maximal motion of the model through that datum, defined for all real times; its velocity is and its momentum is .
(b) Two labels with unequal masses. Declare instead the free two-label model , masses , , and zero force map, so that . Then , the Hamiltonian is , the inverse branch is , and Hamilton's equations are , : each label moves uniformly in a straight line, and the fibre map is a linear isomorphism whose inverse is not a scalar multiple of the identity when .
All quantities are model values of the declared idealizations; no measurement is reported.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The one-label model of part (a) with its uniform potential and the two-label free model of part (b), together with their mechanical Lagrangians, momenta, Hamiltonians and initial data.
Model and Lagrangian data (The action functional of a force model with a potential presentation: the mechanical Lagrangian, its chart instance 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, Configuration domain of labeled particles: open admissible sets, regular holonomic constraints and the mass operator): the mechanical Lagrangian of a declared potential presentation is with , symmetric positive definite, and for one label with ; dimensions are read by Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework.
Momentum, hyperregularity and Hamiltonian (The momentum of a potential presentation: the fibre derivative of the mechanical Lagrangian, the Cartesian momentum Mv and generalized momenta, Hyperregular potential presentations and their inverse Legendre branches in the model's charts, The Hamiltonian of a hyperregular potential presentation: the Legendre transform of the mechanical Lagrangian, its domain and its dimensions, Every potential presentation is hyperregular in its charts, with inverse branch (or ) and the explicit kinetic-plus-potential Hamiltonian): the fibre derivative is the momentum , the presentation is hyperregular on the Cartesian chart with , and the Hamiltonian of the branch is .
Equivalence theorem (Hamilton's equations of the mechanical presentation are equivalent to the model's equation of motion, with residual forces as momentum sources and the coordinate form on every chart): for the global potential branch a curve is a motion of the model if and only if, with , the pair satisfies Hamilton's equations of the branch Hamiltonian.
Initial-value theory (The associated first-order system, motions, maximal motions and the Newtonian flow of a force model, Local existence and uniqueness for the Newtonian initial-value problem, with the quantitative Picard-Lindelöf cylinder): every initial datum of the model has exactly one maximal motion, and a motion defined on all of through the datum is that maximal motion.
Calculus of the displayed curves (The chain rule for total derivatives: , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , The derivative and the Riemann integral of a vector-valued function: an intrinsic derivative and a componentwise integral, The derivative of at a point that is a limit point of , and differentiability on a set, Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length, 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 ): differentiable curves are differentiated componentwise, finite sums and constant multiples obey the usual derivative rules, and the partial derivatives of the displayed quadratic and linear functions are computed by the standard rules.
Verification
Part (a), momentum and Hamiltonian: with and , the fibre derivative is , so and ; [F2] gives hyperregularity and .
Part (a), equations: by [F5] the partial derivatives are and , so Hamilton's equations are and ; differentiating the first and substituting the second gives , which is the model's equation of motion of the uniform-field potential.
Part (b): with and , [F2] gives and ; [F5] gives and , so Hamilton's equations are and , whose solutions are the uniform straight motions .
Part (a), solution: the curve has , and satisfies with , ; by [F4] it is the unique maximal motion through and is defined for all real times, and its momentum solves the displayed Hamilton system by [F3].
Conclusion: parts (a) and (b) exhibit the fibre map, the inverse branch and the branch Hamiltonian on explicit data, and part (a) checks the equivalence with the model's equation and its maximal solution; all claims follow from the cited items without further hypotheses.
Remarks
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The inverse branch is the mass operator's inverse. In part (a) the inverse branch is multiplication by , and in part (b) by the two scalar factors , ; this is the model instance of the general formulas and of Every potential presentation is hyperregular in its charts, with inverse branch (or ) and the explicit kinetic-plus-potential Hamiltonian. The positivity of the masses is what makes both inversions global on the fibre.
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Potential normalisation. The displayed uses the representative ; replacing it by shifts by (The Hamiltonian of a hyperregular potential presentation: the Legendre transform of the mechanical Lagrangian, its domain and its dimensions), so the numerical value of at a state is convention-dependent while the Hamilton system is unchanged by the shift together with the corresponding action convention. No energy value is compared with any measurement here.
Depends on
The momentum of a potential presentation: the fibre derivative of the mechanical Lagrangian, the Cartesian momentum Mv and generalized momenta
Hyperregular potential presentations and their inverse Legendre branches in the model's charts
The Hamiltonian of a hyperregular potential presentation: the Legendre transform of the mechanical Lagrangian, its domain and its dimensions
Every potential presentation is hyperregular in its charts, with inverse branch (or ) and the explicit kinetic-plus-potential Hamiltonian
Hamilton's equations of the mechanical presentation are equivalent to the model's equation of motion, with residual forces as momentum sources and the coordinate form on every chart
The action functional of a force model with a potential presentation: the mechanical Lagrangian, its chart instance 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
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 associated first-order system, motions, maximal motions and the Newtonian flow of a force model
Local existence and uniqueness for the Newtonian initial-value problem, with the quantitative Picard-Lindelöf cylinder
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
The chain rule for total derivatives:
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
The derivative and the Riemann integral of a vector-valued function: an intrinsic derivative and a componentwise integral
The derivative of at a point that is a limit point of , and differentiability on a set
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
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Sources
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (Cambridge lecture notes, January 2015 printing), Section 4.1.3, printed page 84 (PDF page 90): the particle in a potential with p = m r-dot and H = p^2/(2m) + V(r), whose Hamilton equations recover Newton's equation
- K. K. Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics, Part CM: Classical Mechanics (title page last edited September 1, 2026), Section 10.1, chapter pages 2-3 (PDF pages 238-239): the one-degree-of-freedom case p = m_ef qdot, H = p^2/(2m_ef) + U_ef, and qddot = -m_ef^{-1} dU_ef/dq
- I. Stewart, Advanced Classical Mechanics (MIT 8.09/8.309 Fall 2014 course text), Section 1.2, printed page 8 (PDF page 11): the first Hamilton equation inverts the momentum definition and the second provides the Newtonian dynamics
- D. Cline, Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics (2nd edition, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, open textbook, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Sections 8.2-8.3: the Legendre transform of the standard Lagrangian and Hamilton's equations of motion