The motion of a classical spinning particle in a Riemann-Cartan space-time

A consistent set of equations of motion for classical charged particles with spin and magnetic dipole moment in a Riemann-Cartan space-time is generated from a constrained Lagrangian formalism. The equations avoid the spurious free helicoidal solutions and at the same time conserve the canonical condition of normalization of the 4-velocity. The 4-velocity and the mechanical moment are parallel in this theory, where the condition of orthogonality between spin and 4-velocity is treated as a nonholonomic constraint. A generalized BMT precession equation is obtained as one of the results of the formalism.     

Study of nonlinear system stability using eigenvalue analysis: Gyroscopic motion

General computational multibody system (MBS) algorithms allow for the linearization of the highly nonlinear equations of motion at different points in time in order to obtain the eigenvalue solution. This eigenvalue solution of the linearized equations is often used to shed light on the system stability at different configurations that correspond to different time points. Different MBS algorithms, however, employ different sets of orientation coordinates, such as Euler angles and Euler parameters, which lead to different forms of the dynamic equations of motion. As a consequence, the forms of the linearized equations and the eigenvalue solution obtained strongly depend on the set of orientation coordinates used. This paper addresses this fundamental issue by examining the effect of the use of different orientation parameters on the linearized equations of a gyroscope. The nonlinear equations of motion of the gyroscope are formulated using two different sets of orientation parameters: Euler angles and Euler parameters. In order to obtain a set of linearized equations that can be used to define the eigenvalue solution, the algebraic equations that describe the MBS constraints are systematically eliminated leading to a nonlinear form of the equations of motion expressed in terms of the system degrees of freedom. Because in MBS applications the generalized forces can be highly nonlinear and can depend on the velocities, a state space formulation is used to solve the eigenvalue problem. It is shown in this paper that the independent state equations formulated using Euler angles and Euler parameters lead to different eigenvalue solutions. This solution is also different from the solution obtained using a form of the Newton-Euler matrix equation expressed in terms of the angular accelerations and angular velocities. A time-domain solution of the linearized equations is also presented in order to compare between the solutions obtained using two different sets of orientation parameters and also to shed light on the important issue of using the eigenvalue analysis in the study of MBS stability. The validity of using the eigenvalue analysis based on the linearization of the nonlinear equations of motion in the study of the stability of railroad vehicle systems, which have known critical speeds, is examined. It is shown that such an eigenvalue analysis can lead to wrong conclusions regarding the stability of nonlinear systems.     

On the relativistic classical motion of a radiating spinning particle in a magnetic field

We propose classical equations of motion for a charged particle with magnetic moment, taking radiation reaction into account. This generalizes the Landau–Lifshitz equations for the spinless case. In the special case of spin-polarized motion in a constant magnetic field (synchrotron motion) we verify that the particle does lose energy. Previous proposals did not predict dissipation of energy and also suffered from runaway solutions analogous to those of the Lorentz–Dirac equations of motion.     

A connection between deterministic motion and the steady-state probability distribution

We start with a given deterministic equation of motion for a set of macrovariables. Suppose that we can construct a corresponding master equation which has the following properties. In the limit of large systems the deterministic equation can be derived from the master equation for not too long times and the steady-state probability distribution is the exponential of an extensive quantity. Then, using a theorem concerning the solutions of master equations, we can show that the solutions of the deterministic equations evolve into the direction of a nondecreasing steady-state probability.     

关于变摆长的单摆运动与相关的铅直运动的耦合

研究了一个变摆长单摆运动的例子,在平面极坐标系下给出了描述该运动的二阶微分方程组.采用微分方程高精度数值解法得到了随时间变化的摆角、摆长、摆长变化率以及运动轨迹的数值精确解.在小摆角近似下,采用迭代方法推导出摆角、摆角变化率的一级近似解析表达式和摆长、摆长变化率的二级近似解析表达式.由解析表达式得到的数值结果与数值精确解相比较,二者在前几个摆动周期内相吻合.     

Nonstationary motion of electrons in a double plasma layer subjected to the self-consistent electric field of the space charge

Nonstationary 1D equations describing the motion of electrons in a double plasma layer subjected to the self-consistent electric field of the space charge are investigated with allowance for friction force. Analytical solutions to a set of nonlinear hydrodynamic equations for plasma electrons are derived. The variation of the electric field strength, as well as of the electron velocity and concentration, in space and time is found. Electron plasma motions of different types of symmetry are characterized in terms of dynamic parameters.     

Statistical mechanics of holonomic systems as a Brownian motion on smooth manifolds

The statistical mechanics of arbitrary holonomic scleronomous systems subjected to arbitrary external forces is described by specializing the Lagrange and Hamilton equations of motion to those of the Brownian motion on a manifold. In this context, the Klein‐Kramers and Smoluchowski equations are derived in covariant form, and it is demonstrated that these equations have equilibrium solutions corresponding to the Gibbs distribution, in agreement with standard thermodynamics. At last, the Langevin dynamics corresponding to the Smoluchowski limit is found to exactly correspond to the Brownian motion on a smooth manifold. These results find significant applications in the study of several statistical properties of constrained molecular assemblies (e.g. polymers) of interest in chemistry, physics and biology.     

Non‐Volkov solutions for a charge in a plane wave

As it is known, a set of solutions of the Klein‐Gordon and Dirac equations with a plane‐wave field was found for the first time by Volkov. We construct new solutions of these equations different from the Volkov ones. In particular, the new solutions are characterized by quantum numbers different from Volkov solutions. In fact, our result is based on the demonstration that the transversal charge motion in a plane wave can be mapped by a special quantum transformation to transversal free particle motion. Similarly, we find new sets of solutions of the Klein‐Gordon and Dirac equations with the combined electromagnetic field.     

Fluid motion and molecular reorientation in a homeotropically orientated nematic liquid-crystal cell

The linearized Ericksen-Leslie differential equations, which couple fluid motion and director reorientation to each other, are reduced to a set of time varying differential equations for two pulsed optical waves incident at an angle upon a homeotropically orientated liquid-crystal cell. The differential equations are solved by a numerical method. The fluid velocity and the director angle are plotted as a function of space and time. It is shown that the reaction of fluid motion upon director reorientation is small.     

The motion of a charged particle in magnetostatic and electromagnetic fields

The exact solutions are given of the relativistic equations of motion for both the momentum and displacement of a charged particle which is injected into an arbitrary number of intense electromagnetic waves of any polarization and frequency, including zero, all of which propagate parallel to a uniform magnetostatic field with the speed of light. The solutions are implicit in time.     

Equations of motion for the moments of the coupled coherent and incoherent motion of triplet and singlet excitons

A set of differential equations is derived giving all moments of exciton motion. In contrast to previous calculations, interaction with all neighbours is allowed extending the validity of the equations also to singlet excitons. The second moment is calculated explicitely.     

A nonlinear theory for the motion of hydrodynamic discontinuity surfaces

The complete system of hydrodynamic equations that describe the free surface of an inviscid fluid, a tangential discontinuity, and the development of the hydrodynamic instability of a reaction front is reduced to a closed system of surface equations using Lagrangian variables, special integrals of motion, and their analogues. The vorticity is shown to play a fundamental role in the pattern of motion of hydrodynamic discontinuities, imparting a differential form to the equations. In the isentropic approximation, it is demonstrated how to take into account the fluid density oscillations caused by this motion. The derived system of equations is consistent with the previously known analytical solutions obtained in special cases.     

Symmetry of equations of motion for a free particle in riemann space

Spaces are classified in which the equations of motion of a free test particle admit a partial separation of variables aided by a set of first integrals of the second order.     

完整力学系统的高阶运动微分方程

从质点系的牛顿动力学方程出发,引入系统的高阶速度能量,导出完整力学系统的高阶Lagrange方程、高阶Nielsen方程以及高阶Appell方程,并证明了完整系统三种形式的高阶运动微分方程是等价的.结果表明,完整系统高阶运动微分方程揭示了系统运动状态的改变与力的各阶变化率之间的联系,这是牛顿动力学方程以及传统分析力学方程不能直接反映的.因此,完整系统高阶运动微分方程是对牛顿动力学方程及传统Lagrange方程、Nielsen方程、Appell方程等二阶运动微分方程的进一步补充. 关键词： 高阶速度能量 高阶Lagrange方程 高阶 Nielsen方程 高阶Appell方程     

On the motion of a heavy rigid body in an ideal fluid with circulation

We consider Chaplygin's equations [Izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR 3, 3 (1933)] describing the planar motion of a rigid body in an unbounded volume of an ideal fluid while circulation around the body is not zero. Hamiltonian structures and new integrable cases are revealed; certain remarkable partial solutions are found and their stability is examined. The nonintegrability of the system describing the motion of a body in the field of gravity is proved and the chaotic behavior of the system is illustrated.     

Singularities motion equations in 2-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics of incompressible fluid

In this Letter, we have obtained motion equations for a wide class of one-dimensional singularities in 2D ideal hydrodynamics. The simplest of them, are well known as point vortices. More complicated singularities correspond to vorticity point dipoles. It has been proved that point multipoles of a higher order (quadrupoles and more) are not the exact solutions of two-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics. The motion equations for a system of interacting point vortices and point dipoles have been obtained. It is shown that these equations are Hamiltonian ones and have three motion integrals in involution. It means the complete integrability of two-particle system, which has a point vortex and a point dipole.     

Microscopic nuclear collective motion studied by classical equations of motion

The time-dependent variation principle is used to obtain generally non-canonical equations of motion from any class of quantum states which are parameterized by a set of continuous complex quantities. A class of states is presented whose associated classical dynamics is described by the five collective quadrupole degrees of freedom. Information about the classical dynamics of the system can be obtained from the non-canonical equations by finding physically interesting quantities which are coordinate independent and which characterize the low-energy collective motion. Approximate collective hamiltonians, of either a Bohr-Mottelson or an IBM type, can be found by insisting that the interesting physical quantities which describe the low-energy classical behavior of the many-body system are the same as those describing the classical behavior of the system given by the collective hamiltonian. The method is applied to two simple schematic models, one vibrational and one rotational, and IBM hamiltonians are obtained.     

A metric allowing a 2-parameter group of motion

Using heuristic arguments, we find a metric form, which might describe the field of particles having light velocity. It turns out that this metric, which allows a 2-parameter group of motion, indeed includes radiative solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations and of the Einstein-Maxwell equations.Work supported by NRC Grant A-5205.