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soap brain12-Apr-08 5:48
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73Zeppelin22-Apr-08 2:10
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
I get what you're saying, but I was trying to read up on Hamiltonian mechanics, and it was WAY complicated. I was getting it, and then it completely lost me. I'm too dumb, sorry.


No, you're not dumb. Your mind is still pure and clean. Your innocence hasn't been taken from you; you haven't been touched by the horrors of Jackson[^] yet.

Also, to understand Hamiltonian mechanics, you have to understand the mathematical language it's formalized in. You are too young to have been exposed to calculus yet let alone generalized position and momentum equations or the principle of minimum variation. Let's just say that Hamiltonian mechanics is a grand generalization of classical mechanics (physics). In it's most easily understood terms, the Hamiltonian of a system represents the minimum energy configuration. It allows you, for example, to derive a set of equations of, say, a particle in a field - a set of equations that will describe the evolution of i.e. position and momentum over time.



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