Paper 1, Section I, A
Part II, 2014
Consider a one-dimensional dynamical system with generalized coordinate and momentum .
(a) Define the Poisson bracket of two functions and .
(b) Verify the Leibniz rule
(c) Explain what is meant by a canonical transformation .
(d) State the condition for a transformation to be canonical in terms of the Poisson bracket . Use this to determine whether or not the following transformations are canonical:
(i) ,
(ii) ,
(iii) .