scholarly journals A generalized virial theorem and the balance of kinetic and potential energies in the semiclassical limit

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (47) ◽  
pp. 474032
Author(s):  
D R Yafaev
Author(s):  
David D. Nolte

Dynamical systems follow trajectories for which the mechanical action integrated along the trajectory is an extremum. The action is defined as the time average of the difference between kinetic and potential energies, which is also the time average of the Lagrangian. Once a Lagrangian has been defined for a system, the Euler equations of variational calculus lead to the Euler–Lagrange equations of dynamics. This chapter explores applications of Lagrangians and the use of Lagrange’s undetermined multipliers. Conservation laws, central forces, and the virial theorem are developed and explained.


Pramana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ F CARIÑENA ◽  
ANINDYA GHOSE CHOUDHURY ◽  
PARTHA GUHA

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malihe Heydari-Fard ◽  
Mohaddese Heydari-Fard

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (39) ◽  
pp. 395210 ◽  
Author(s):  
José F Cariñena ◽  
Fernando Falceto ◽  
Manuel F Rañada

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (09) ◽  
pp. 1450055 ◽  
Author(s):  
José F. Cariñena ◽  
Irina Gheorghiu ◽  
Eduardo Martínez ◽  
Patrícia Santos

In this paper, the geometric approach to the virial theorem (VT) developed in [J. F. Cariñena, F. Falceto and M. F. Rañada, A geometric approach to a generalized virial theorem, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 (2012) 395210, 19 pp.] is written in terms of quasi-velocities (see [J. F. Cariñena, J. Nunes da Costa and P. Santos, Quasi-coordinates from the point of view of Lie algebroid structures, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 10031–10048]). A generalization of the VT for mechanical systems on Lie algebroids is also given, using the geometric tools of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics on the prolongation of the Lie algebroid.


1988 ◽  
Vol 37 (14) ◽  
pp. 8167-8178 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ziesche ◽  
J. Gräfenstein ◽  
O. H. Nielsen

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