Chapter 4 Energy and Stability
... we know the shape of the wire, the single variable s tells us everything we need to know about the bead’s position. Such a system is known as having one degree of freedom, and we can treat it as being effectively one-dimensional. For such a system, described by a parameter q(t), we can apply all the ...
... we know the shape of the wire, the single variable s tells us everything we need to know about the bead’s position. Such a system is known as having one degree of freedom, and we can treat it as being effectively one-dimensional. For such a system, described by a parameter q(t), we can apply all the ...
