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Fifth Semester 2018 .a

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PAPER: Classical Mechanics TIME ALLOWED: 2 hrs. & 30 mins.


Course Code: PHY-301 MAX. MARKS: 50
Altempt this Paper on Separale Answer Sheet provided.

SECTION-II (20 Marks)


2. If Lagrangian for a system of n degrees of fieedom satisfying Lagrange equation
.L is a
of motion, show by direct substitution that

L' - L* *rr@r,.. . ,Q.it),

satisfles the Lagrange equation of motion. (5)

.). Show that the transformation

P - 2(l+ JQcosp)rrqsinp
A : In(1+ ./[cosp)
is canonical.
(5)

4. The Lagrangian for two particles of masses rn1 arlld rn2 alrd coordinates x1 and x2 ,interacting
via a potential V(x1-x2), is

L-1,1
- ,mtl- i*r*tr - Y(x1 - x2)
Rewrite the Lagrangian in terms of the center of mass coordinates
^ tflt Xt + m2 X2
R:
mt r 111a

and the relativb coordinates x: xl - x2. Use Lagrange's equation to show that the
center of mass and relative motion separate, the center of mass moving with -cjlnstant
velocity and relative motion being like that of a particle of reduced ma.ss p
'
: y--Y-
rnr rfiz *
in a potentail V(x).(S)
5. Consider.the Atwood machine as shown in Figure. Find the equation of motion.
LE )

I
x
I
l-x
I
I P.T.O.
SECTION-III (30 Mar}s)
o- (a) State Kepler's Laws of planetary motion.
(b) Discuss the properties of rnotion in effective potential in a central force two-body
problem. (5+5)

7. (a) A particle moves in an elliptical orbit in a.n inverse squa,re law central force field.
If the ratio of the maximum angular velocity to the minimum angula.r velocity of the
particle in its orbit is n, then show that the eccentricity of the orbit is

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,/n+ t
(b) Show that the path followed by a particle in sliding from one point to another
under the action of gravity in the absence of friction and in the shotest time is a
cycloid. (5+5)

8. (a) Show that, if a transformation from (q,p) to (Q, P) be canonical then the bilinear
form
Dlp,aqo - 6qndp;) ,

is inva.riant under the canonical t.'*ofo.-atio.r.


(b) Consider two masses tied together on a frictionless inclined plane as shown in
Figure. Find the equations of motion.

Y *\ +\
t/' '\

(5+5)

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