Obtain Hamilton's equations of motion for a plane pendulum of length l with mass poin m whose radius of suspension rotates uniformly on the circumference of a vertical circle of radius a.  Describe physically the nature of the canonical momentum and the Hamiltonian.

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Again from Goldstein's, "Classical Mechanics" Chapter 8, The Hamilton Equations Of Motion.

The question is:

Write the problem of central force motion of two mass points in Hamiltonian formulation, eliminating the cyclic variables, and reducing the problem to quadratures.

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Show that if lambda[i] are the eigenvalues of a square matrix, then if the reciprocal matrix exists it has the eigenvalues (lambda[i])^(-1).

By "reciprocal matrix" I assume he means inverse.

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The question is,

A particle in hyperbolic motion starts from the origin at t = 0.  Find the time t[0] such that if a photon is emitted from the origin after t[0], it will never catch up with the particle.

Anyone familiar with this text, or who has gone through it formally please help.

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I downloaded John Fredsted's Gravitation code from the Maple application center, and now I'm trying to get it to be a package.

However, I'm having trouble doing this.

Can anyone help me get to the point where I can access this application as any other manufacturer produced package using the with command ?

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