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The assignment requires students to submit a solution to one of the given problems in Classical Mechanics by creating a video explanation and providing a written solution. Students must identify generalized forces, virtual displacements, and derive equations of motion using D'Alembert's principle or the Lagrangian approach for various mechanical systems. The deadline for submission is October 3, 2024, and specific instructions for formatting and submission are provided.

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The assignment requires students to submit a solution to one of the given problems in Classical Mechanics by creating a video explanation and providing a written solution. Students must identify generalized forces, virtual displacements, and derive equations of motion using D'Alembert's principle or the Lagrangian approach for various mechanical systems. The deadline for submission is October 3, 2024, and specific instructions for formatting and submission are provided.

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Classical Mechanics (PHY F211)

Assignment 2 (2024-25, Sem-1)

You have to submit solution of any one of the problems.

Submission should be done in the following way :


1) Create a video recording of yourself explaining the solution. The solution pre-written clearly on paper/e-device
should be visible in the recording. The recording should also capture your own-self.
2) The written material should be clearly and easily visible in the recording.
23) Submit both a pdf le AND a link to the video (uploaded on your google drive) on Quanta. Put the link
under comments (and nowhere else) on Assignment submission page

On top of the solution sheet mention your name & ID No.

Deadline for submission is Thursday 3-Oct-2024 (midnight)

1. For the block-inclined plane system, with the inclined plane allowed to move.

(a) Identify a set of generalized forces

(b) Identify virtual displacement

(c) Find the expression of the generalized forces corresponding to the generalized coordinates
d ∂T ∂T
(d) Use the equation
dt ( ∂ q˙j ) − ∂qj = Qj derived from the D'Alembert principle to obtain the equation of
motion of the block (mass m) and inclined plane (mass M ).

2. In the following pendulum (gure below), the pivot is free to move along horizontal rod. Additionally, the
pivot has mass (m1 ). Mass m2 is connected to m1 by a massless rod and is free to move in a plane.

(a) Identify the generalized coordinates.

(b) Find the expression for the generalized forces corresponding to the generalized coordinates.
d ∂T ∂T
(c) Use the equation
dt ( ∂ q˙j ) − ∂qj = Qj derived from the D'Alembert principle at the end of the last lecture
to obtain the equation of motion of the two masses.

3. (Same system as above). Here, use the Lagrangian approach to get the equations of motion.

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(a) Construct the Lagrangian for the system in terms of a set of generalized coordinates.

(b) Use the Lagrangian to nd the equations of motion.

(c) Is there any conserved quantity? Identify it.

4. Two points of mass m are joined by a rigid weightless rod of length l, the center of which is constrained to
move on a circle of radius R in a vertical plane (thus gravity plays a role)

(a) Select a set of generalized coordinates

(b) Construct the Lagrangian & then use the Euler-Lagrage equation to nd equations of motions in terms
of these coordinates.

(c) The system has a conserved quantity. Justify that there is such a quantity and identify it.

5. A particle mass m moves without friction along the inner surface of a cone (see gure below). Gravity is
present in the problem.

(a) Write down the equation of constraint that connects dierent cartesian coordinates.

(b) Choose a set of generalized coordinates and then write the Lagrangian.

(c) By examining the Lagrangian nd a quantity (as function of generalized coordinates & velocities) which
is conserved. Explain clearly the basis of your assertion that the said quantity is conserved. Which
physical quantity known to you is this?

(d) Find the equations of motion of the mass in terms of the chosen generalized coordinates.
This was a mid-sem test problem in an earlier year.

6. If L(q1 , ...., qn ) is a Lagrangian for a system of n degree of freedom satisfying Lagrange equations, show by
direct substitution into Euler-Lagrang equation that

dF (q1 , ...., qn )
L′ = L + (1)
dt
also satises the Lagrange equations where F is any arbitrary function. In this sense, the Lagrangian (as a
function that gives the right equations of motion) is not unique.

7. A particle moves in a plane under the inuence of a force, acting toward a center of force ,whose magnitude is

1 ṙ2 − 2r̈r
F = (1 − ) (2)
r2 c2
where r is the distance of the particle to the center of force.

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(a) What is the expression for the generalized force here?

(b) Find the generalized potential that will result in such a force.

(c) From that form the Lagrangian for the motion in a plane.

The force here represents the force between two charges in motion.

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