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carllacan
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Just a little doubt.
When we are performing a canonical transformation on a Hamiltonian and we have the equations of the new coordinates in terms of the old ones we have to find the Kamiltonian/new Hamiltonian using [itex]K = H +\frac{\partial G}{\partial t}[/itex]. My question is: do we have to derive the generating function before or after substituting the old coordinates for the new ones?
For example, in a [itex](q, p)\rightarrow(Q, P)[/itex] that last derivative would be [itex]\frac{\partial G(q, p, t)}{\partial t}[/itex] or [itex]\frac{\partial G(q(Q, P, t), p(Q, P, t))}{\partial t} =\frac{\partial G(Q, P, t}{\partial t}[/itex]?
When we are performing a canonical transformation on a Hamiltonian and we have the equations of the new coordinates in terms of the old ones we have to find the Kamiltonian/new Hamiltonian using [itex]K = H +\frac{\partial G}{\partial t}[/itex]. My question is: do we have to derive the generating function before or after substituting the old coordinates for the new ones?
For example, in a [itex](q, p)\rightarrow(Q, P)[/itex] that last derivative would be [itex]\frac{\partial G(q, p, t)}{\partial t}[/itex] or [itex]\frac{\partial G(q(Q, P, t), p(Q, P, t))}{\partial t} =\frac{\partial G(Q, P, t}{\partial t}[/itex]?