Symplectic Symmetry 1.

• Consider motion of a single particle in 1D

  • Described using a 2D phase space (x,p)
  • Hamiltonian
  • Equations of motion
  • Phase space
  • Forthcoming result are easily generalized to higher dimensional phase space, but hard to visualize

unit mass

{p(t),x(t)} trajectory

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