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Why isn't frame of reference called reference point? [closed]
A frame of reference is the perspective you have on a happenstance. But isn't it a viewpoint or point of view? As in, a literal point, from which something is observed?
If so, why is it called a frame ...
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In terms of which zero should i calculate the potential energy in the Lagrangian formalism?
What I understand is that we have two kinds of coordinates when working with the Lagrangian formalism with different zeros (which may happen to coincide) to measure from, those are the Cartesian ...
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Possible error in Marion and Thornton's Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems
I was going over my notes on classical mechanics and just started to review rotation matrices which is the first topic the book starts with. On page 3
The rotation matrix associated with 1.2a and 1....
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Rigid Rotor, Heisenberg Picture
I'm running into a problem where a rigid rotor in the the (non-inertial) principle axis frame of reference seems to violate Ehrenfest's theorem by a minus sign.
Consider a rigid rotor with ...
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