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Homework and Exercises - Lagrangian, Kinetic ... : DX DT

This document discusses writing the kinetic energy and Lagrangian for a two-particle system. It provides a figure of the system and explains that the kinetic energy is calculated by taking half the mass times the square of the velocity for each particle, where the velocity is the time derivative of the displacement. It gives the kinetic energy equation for the first particle as half mass one times the derivative of displacement x one squared. The same process is used to find the kinetic energy of the second particle.

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Homework and Exercises - Lagrangian, Kinetic ... : DX DT

This document discusses writing the kinetic energy and Lagrangian for a two-particle system. It provides a figure of the system and explains that the kinetic energy is calculated by taking half the mass times the square of the velocity for each particle, where the velocity is the time derivative of the displacement. It gives the kinetic energy equation for the first particle as half mass one times the derivative of displacement x one squared. The same process is used to find the kinetic energy of the second particle.

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homework and exercises - Lagrangian, Kinetic ... https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1...

A simple
figure of the
system at
hand is given
below.

In writing the
kinetic energy
we use the
velocities of
particles. In
particular, we
square the
velocities. And
velocity is
nothing but
the derivative
of the
displacement.
Here we have
two particles
where we
showed their
displacements
by x1 and x2 .
That means
kinetic energy
for the first
particle is

1
T1 = m1 ẋ21
2
where the dot
on the top of
x1 denotes a
time
derivative, i.e;
dx1
ẋ1 = dt
.
Similarly
kinetic energy

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