Differentiable and Complex Dynamics of Several Variables (Mathematics and Its Applications, 483)

Pei-Chu Hu; Chung-Chun Yang

ISBN 10: 079235771X / ISBN 13: 9780792357711

Published by Springer, 1999

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• Title: Differentiable and Complex Dynamics of Several Variables (Mathematics and Its Applications, 483)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079235771X
• ISBN 13: 9780792357711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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The development of dynamics theory began with the work of Isaac Newton. In his theory the most basic law of classical mechanics is f = ma, which describes the motion n in IR. of a point of mass m under the action of a force f by giving the acceleration a. If n the position of the point is taken to be a point x E IR. , and if the force f is supposed to be a function of x only, Newton's Law is a description in terms of a second-order ordinary differential equation: J2x m dt = f(x). 2 It makes sense to reduce the equations to first order by defining the velo city as an extra n independent variable by v = :i; = ~~ E IR. . Then x = v, mv = f(x). L. Euler, J. L. Lagrange and others studied mechanics by means of an analytical method called analytical dynamics. Whenever the force f is represented by a gradient vector field f = - \lU of the potential energy U, and denotes the difference of the kinetic energy and the potential energy by 1 L(x,v) = 2'm(v,v) - U(x), the Newton equation of motion is reduced to the Euler-Lagrange equation ~~ are used as the variables, the Euler-Lagrange equation can be If the momenta y written as . 8L y= 8x' Further, W. R.