• terms of generalized coordinates. In the formulation of virtual work, each generalized force is the coefficient of the variation of a generalized coordinate...
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  • reference state. The generalized velocities are the time derivatives of the generalized coordinates of the system. The adjective "generalized" distinguishes...
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    {q}}}}\right),} is the generalized force acting on this one degree of freedom system. If the mechanical system is defined by m generalized coordinates, qj,...
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  • system, known as Lagrange's equations or the generalized equations of motion. If the generalized forces Qj are derivable from a potential energy V(q1...
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    Given this vk, the kinetic energy in generalized coordinates depends on the generalized velocities, generalized coordinates, and time if the position...
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    (condensation). Only when these "forces" equilibrate is equilibrium obtained. Generalized coordinate and generalized force: analogous conjugate variable...
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    {\theta }}^{2}.} The generalized coordinates of the system are θ {\displaystyle \theta } and x {\displaystyle x} , each has a generalized force. On the x {\displaystyle...
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    the forces of constraint vanish. That is to say that the generalized forces Q j {\displaystyle \mathbf {Q} _{j}} need not include constraint forces. It...
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    Retrieved 2020-11-09. For a description of generalized coordinates, see Ahmed A. Shabana (2003). "Generalized coordinates and kinematic constraints". Dynamics...
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  • in the context as generalized coordinates. The kinetic and potential energies of the system are expressed using these generalized coordinates or momenta...
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    _{i}\,\mathrm {d} n_{i}\,} Here the X j {\displaystyle X_{j}} are the generalized forces corresponding to the external parameters x j {\displaystyle x_{j}}...
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  • the Lagrangian which is a function of the generalized coordinates and the associated velocities. If all forces are derivable from a potential, then the...
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    external variables, and the X i {\displaystyle X_{i}} the corresponding generalized forces. A system kept at constant volume, temperature, and particle number...
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  • Frenet–Serret formulas Galilean invariance General relativity Generalized coordinates Generalized forces Geodetic reference frame Inertial frame of reference Local...
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    the temperature is known as a "generalized" force (rather than an actual mechanical force) and the entropy is a generalized displacement. Similarly, a difference...
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    is reduced to a minimum. The time derivatives of the generalized coordinates are the generalized velocities q ˙ = d q d t . {\displaystyle \mathbf {\dot...
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    in the internal coordinates, so it can also be written in terms of generalized forces. The resulting coefficients are termed compliance constants. A direct...
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  • primes today are generalized Fermat primes. Generalized Fermat numbers can be prime only for even a, because if a is odd then every generalized Fermat number...
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  • _{r}={\ddot {q}}_{r}} is an arbitrary generalized acceleration, or the second time derivative of the generalized coordinates q r {\displaystyle q_{r}}...
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    conserved quantity is generalized momentum, and in general this is different from the kinetic momentum defined above. The concept of generalized momentum is carried...
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    published his Traité de dynamique, in which he introduced the concept of generalized forces for accelerating systems and systems with constraints, and applied...
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  • publishes his Traite de Dynamique, in which he introduces the concept of generalized forces and D'Alembert's principle 1747 – D'Alembert and Alexis Clairaut publish...
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    motion equation Frenet–Serret formulas General relativity Generalized coordinates Generalized force Gravity Inertial reference frame Kinematics Kinetics...
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    {d} N_{j}+\sum _{i}X_{i}\,\mathrm {d} x_{i}} Here the Xi are the generalized forces corresponding to the external variables xi. Applying Legendre transforms...
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  • modern armed forces undergo generalized basic CBRN self-defense training for all their personnel. Central Laboratory of the Armed Forces – Military Unit...
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    Moldova and Ukraine did not sign the documents on the creation of generalized CIS Joint Forces and did not agree with the principle despite membership in the...
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  • system, if all forces, with the exception of the constraint forces, are derivable from the generalized scalar potential, and this generalized scalar potential...
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  • specific to their own occupational specialty, as opposed to the more generalized command responsibilities of commissioned officers.[excessive citations]...
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  • Einstein tried to form a generalized theory of gravitation that would unify the gravitational and electromagnetic forces (and perhaps others), guided...
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    currents I {\displaystyle I} and current-induced forces F {\displaystyle F} , taken as generalized fluxes on one hand, and the chemical potentials biases...
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