Paper 4, Section I, 3A
Part IA, 2018
(a) Define an inertial frame.
(b) Specify three different types of Galilean transformation on inertial frames whose space coordinates are and whose time coordinate is .
(c) State the Principle of Galilean Relativity.
(d) Write down the equation of motion for a particle in one dimension in a potential . Prove that energy is conserved. A particle is at position at time . Find an expression for time as a function of in terms of an integral involving .
(e) Write down the values of any equilibria and state (without justification) whether they are stable or unstable for:
(i)
(ii) for and .