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In classical mechanics, the precession of a top under the influence of gravity is not, in general, an integrable problem. There are however three famous cases that are integrable, the Euler, the Lagrange and the Kovalevskaya top.〔Audin, M. Spinning Tops: A Course on Integrable Systems. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.〕 In addition to the energy, each of these tops involves three additional constants of motion that give rise to the integrability. The Euler top describes a free top without any particular symmetry, moving in the absence of any external torque. The Lagrange top is a symmetric top, in which the center of gravity lies on the symmetry axis. The Kovalevskaya top〔S. Kovalevskaya, Acta Math. 12 177–232 (1889)〕〔A. M. Perelemov, Teoret. Mat. Fiz., Volume 131, Number 2, Pages 197–205 (2002)〕 is special symmetric top with a unique ratio of the moments of inertia satisfy the relation , and in which the center of gravity is located in the plane perpendicular to the symmetry axis. ==Hamiltonian Formulation of Classical tops== A classical top〔Herbert Goldstein Charles P. Poole , John L. Safko, Classical Mechanics, (3rd Edition), Addison-Wesley (2002)〕 is defined by three principal axes, defined by the three orthogonal vectors and along the principal axes If the position of the center of mass is given by , then the Hamiltonian of a top is given by The equations of motion are then determined by 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lagrange, Euler and Kovalevskaya tops」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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