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The mechanics of the structured particles develops. The substantiation of applicability of such mechanics for the description of processes of evolution in open nonequilibrium systems is offered. The consequences following from the equations…

General Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 V. M. Somsikov

Physical systems with symmetry arise abundantly in applications, and are endowed with interesting mathematical structures. The present paper focusses on linear reciprocal and input-output Hamiltonian systems. Their characterization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Arjan van der Schaft , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Tom Chaffey

The paper discusses fundamental problems in mathematical description of social systems based on physical concepts, with so-called statistical social systems being the main subject of consideration. Basic properties of human beings and human…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-04-11 Ihor Lubashevsky , Natalia Plawinska

We develop a method for systematically constructing Lagrangian functions for dissipative mechanical, electrical and, mechatronic systems. We derive the equations of motion for some typical mechatronic systems using deterministic principles…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 A. Allison , C. E. M. Pearce , D. Abbott

The mathematical theory underlying Hamiltonian mechanics is called symplectic geometry. So symplectic geometry arose from the roots of mechanics and is seen as one of the most valuable links between physics and mathematics today. Symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Stefan Goessner

The geometry of a Lagrangian mechanical system is determined by its associated evolution semispray. We uniquely determine this semispray using the symplectic structure and the energy of the Lagrange space and the external force field. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-14 Ioan Bucataru , Radu Miron

This paper is devoted to the study of symplectic manifolds and their connection with Hamiltonian dynamical systems. We review some properties and operations on these manifolds and see how they intervene when studying the complete…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-03 A. Lesfari

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, to make clear (and de-mystify) the basic concepts of classical thermodynamics, and thus to enable the integration of thermodynamics within systems modeling and control. Second, to demonstrate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Arjan van der Schaft

The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we give a formal introduction to the basics of the mathematical framework of classical mechanics. Along the way, we prove a Hamiltonian and a Lagrangian version of Noether's Theorem, an important…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Yannis Bähni

In this work we introduce contact Hamiltonian mechanics, an extension of symplectic Hamiltonian mechanics, and show that it is a natural candidate for a geometric description of non-dissipative and dissipative systems. For this purpose we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alessandro Bravetti , Hans Cruz , Diego Tapias

Cosmology is a well established research area in physics while dynamical systems are well established in mathematics. It turns out that dynamical system techniques are very well suited to study many aspects of cosmology. The aim of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-25 Christian G. Boehmer , Nyein Chan

We discuss here the use of generalized forms of entropy, taken as information measures, to characterize phase transitions and critical behavior in thermodynamic systems. Our study is based on geometric considerations pertaining to the space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-14 M. Portesi , F. Pennini , A. Plastino

The purpose of this paper is describe Lagrangian Mechanics for constrained systems on Lie algebroids, a natural framework which covers a wide range of situations (systems on Lie groups, quotients by the action of a Lie group, standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-07 D. Iglesias , J. C. Marrero , D. Martin de Diego , D. Sosa

This study is an extented analogue to conformal geometry of the paper given by [14]. Also, the geometric and physical results related to bi-para-conformal-dynamical systems are also presented.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Zeki Kasap , Mehmet Tekkoyun

This paper investigates a family of dynamical systems arising from an evolutionary re-interpretation of certain optimal control and optimization problems. We focus particularly on the application in image registration of the theory of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-21 F. Gay-Balmaz , D. D. Holm , T. S. Ratiu

Some subjects related to the geometric theory of singular dynamical systems are reviewed in this paper. In particular, the following two matters are considered: the theory of canonical transformations for presymplectic Hamiltonian systems,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Narciso Roman-Roy

In this paper, we consider a generalization of variational calculus which allows us to consider in the same framework different cases of mechanical systems, for instance, Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics, systems subjected to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Viviana Alejandra Díaz , David Martín de Diego

The aim of this work is to provide a possible philosophical motivation to the variational principles of physics in general and a possible way to unify the axiomatizations of mechanics theories. The leitmotif of this work is a dialectical…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 Qiuping A. Wang

This work is devoted to review the modern geometric description of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms of the Hamilton--Jacobi theory. The relation with the "classical" Hamiltonian approach using canonical transformations is also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Narciso Román-Roy

In classical mechanics, the 'geometry of motion' refers to a development to visualize the motion of freely spinning bodies. In this paper, such an approach of studying the rotational motion of axisymmetric variable mass systems is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 Angadh Nanjangud