Paper 4, Section II, B
Part II, 2018
Given a Lagrangian with degrees of freedom , define the Hamiltonian and show how Hamilton's equations arise from the Lagrange equations and the Legendre transform.
Consider the Lagrangian for a symmetric top moving in constant gravity:
where and are constants. Construct the corresponding Hamiltonian, and find three independent Poisson-commuting first integrals of Hamilton's equations.