scholarly journals Alternative kinetic energy metrics for Lagrangian systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (44) ◽  
pp. 445204
Author(s):  
W Sarlet ◽  
G Prince
2010 ◽  
Vol 07 (08) ◽  
pp. 1451-1489 ◽  
Author(s):  
BAVO LANGEROCK ◽  
MARCO CASTRILLÓN LÓPEZ

This paper concerns the Routh reduction procedure for Lagrangians systems with symmetry. It differs from the existing results on geometric Routh reduction in the fact that no regularity conditions on either the Lagrangian L or the momentum map JL are required apart from the momentum being a regular value of JL. The main results of this paper are: the description of a general Routh reduction procedure that preserves the Euler–Lagrange nature of the original system and the presentation of a presymplectic framework for Routh reduced systems. In addition, we provide a detailed description and interpretation of the Euler–Lagrange equations for the reduced system. The proposed procedure includes Lagrangian systems with a non-positively definite kinetic energy metric.


Author(s):  
A. D. Kozlov ◽  
Yu. P. Potekhina

Although joints with synovial cavities and articular surfaces are very variable, they all have one common peculiarity. In most cases, one of the articular surfaces is concave, whereas the other one is convex. During the formation of a joint, the epiphysis, which has less kinetic energy during the movements in the joint, forms a convex surface, whereas large kinetic energy forms the epiphysis with a concave surface. Basing on this concept, the analysis of the structure of the joints, allows to determine forces involved into their formation, and to identify the general patterns of the formation of the skeleton.


2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-186
Author(s):  
V. A. Rassokhin ◽  
S. Yu. Olennikov ◽  
E. A. Chirkova ◽  
A. A. Kondratiev ◽  
Yu. V. Matveev

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