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Istiak
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- Homework Statement
- find a partial differentiation is equal to 0
- Relevant Equations
- Partial Differentiation
$$\sum_i (\frac{\partial}{\partial q_i}(\frac{\partial T}{\partial q_j}\dot{q}_i)+\frac{\partial}{\partial q_i}(\frac{\partial T}{\partial q_j})\ddot{q}_i)+\frac{\partial}{\partial t}(\frac{\partial T}{\partial \dot{q}_j})$$
They wrote that above equation is equal to $$\frac{d}{dt}(\frac{\partial T}{\partial \dot{q}_j})$$ hiwhc means differentiation of other functions are ##0##. But, I was thinking if my explanation was correct. I thought that while differentiating respect to ##q_i## in the function ##\sum_i \frac{\partial}{\partial q_i}(\frac{\partial T}{\partial q_j}\dot{q}_i)## there's no variable ##q## so, while differentiating respect to that it will become ##0##. I was thinking the same thing had happened to second one also.
But, actually ##T=T(q_i,\dot{q}_i,t)##. So, T has q variable but although why it will be ##0##? Is there something else I am missing?
They wrote that above equation is equal to $$\frac{d}{dt}(\frac{\partial T}{\partial \dot{q}_j})$$ hiwhc means differentiation of other functions are ##0##. But, I was thinking if my explanation was correct. I thought that while differentiating respect to ##q_i## in the function ##\sum_i \frac{\partial}{\partial q_i}(\frac{\partial T}{\partial q_j}\dot{q}_i)## there's no variable ##q## so, while differentiating respect to that it will become ##0##. I was thinking the same thing had happened to second one also.
But, actually ##T=T(q_i,\dot{q}_i,t)##. So, T has q variable but although why it will be ##0##? Is there something else I am missing?