Geometric mechanics is a branch of mathematics applying particular geometric methods to many areas of mechanics, from mechanics of particles and rigid...
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In classical and quantum mechanics, geometric phase is a phase difference acquired over the course of a cycle, when a system is subjected to cyclic adiabatic...
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most accurate being general relativity and relativistic statistical mechanics. Geometric optics is an approximation to the quantum theory of light, and does...
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(quantum mechanics) Quantum Hamilton's equations Quantum field theory Hamiltonian optics De Donder–Weyl theory Geometric mechanics Routhian mechanics Nambu...
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well as three monographs, on linear algebra, on relativity and on geometric mechanics. He supervised 9 PhD students. "Décès de Jean-Marie Souriau" (in...
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principle. Darryl's main activities have been based on his use of geometric mechanics to derive and analyse nonlinear evolution equations for multiscale...
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a Romanian-American mathematician who has made contributions to geometric mechanics and dynamical systems theory. Rațiu was born in Timișoara. His father...
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symplectic geometry known as the Floer homology. Contact geometry Geometric mechanics Moment map Poisson geometry Symplectic duality Symplectic integration...
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In physics, Lagrangian mechanics is a formulation of classical mechanics founded on the d'Alembert principle of virtual work. It was introduced by the...
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geometric algebra (also known as a Clifford algebra) is an algebra that can represent and manipulate geometrical objects such as vectors. Geometric algebra...
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geometry, differential equations, classical mechanics, differential-geometric approach to hydrodynamics, geometric analysis and singularity theory, including...
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In mathematical physics, geometric quantization is a mathematical approach to defining a quantum theory corresponding to a given classical theory. It...
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In physics, mechanics is the study of objects, their interaction, and motion; classical mechanics is mechanics limited to non-relativistic and non-quantum...
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celestial mechanics. Prior to Kepler, there was little connection between exact, quantitative prediction of planetary positions, using geometrical or numerical...
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French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be...
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1088/0305-4470/26/22/010. Blender, R.; Badin, G. (2015). "Hydrodynamic Nambu mechanics derived by geometric constraints". J. Phys. A. 48 (10): 105501. arXiv:1510.04832...
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In mathematics, a geometric series is a series summing the terms of an infinite geometric sequence, in which the ratio of consecutive terms is constant...
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structural analysis. Structural mechanics analysis needs input data such as structural loads, the structure's geometric representation and support conditions...
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the early days of ancient Greek mathematics. For instance, an infinite geometric sum is implicit in Zeno's paradox of the dichotomy. (Strictly speaking...
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Rigid body (category Rigid bodies mechanics)
rigidity Classical Mechanics (Goldstein) Differential rotation Euler's equations (rigid body dynamics) Euler's laws Geometric Mechanics Rigid body dynamics...
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Hamilton's optico-mechanical analogy (category Hamiltonian mechanics)
Hamilton–Jacobi equation approach to mechanics. The orthogonality of mechanical trajectories characteristic of geometrical optics to the optical wavefronts...
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In mechanics, strain is defined as relative deformation, compared to a reference position configuration. Different equivalent choices may be made for...
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electrodynamics, thermodynamics, geometric optics, and quantum mechanics. It also has a chapter on the mechanics of fields and continua. At the end...
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Malus–Dupin theorem (category Geometrical optics)
optics, there is a more conceptual proof in the style of modern geometric mechanics, which proceeds as follows: Construct the 4-dimensional symplectic...
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applications to mechanics. With his colleague Paulette Libermann (1919-2007) he published in 1987 a research-level book on symplectic geometry and geometric mechanics...
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differential equations. Probability theory was used in statistical mechanics. Geometric intuition played a strong role in the first two and, accordingly...
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Quantization (physics) (section Geometric quantization)
equivalent phase space formulation of conventional quantum mechanics. In mathematical physics, geometric quantization is a mathematical approach to defining...
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Hamilton–Jacobi equation (category Hamiltonian mechanics)
of classical mechanics, equivalent to other formulations such as Newton's laws of motion, Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics. The Hamilton–Jacobi...
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In geometric mechanics a presymplectic form is a closed differential 2-form of constant rank on a manifold. However, some authors use different definitions...
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