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A Way of Representing the Motion of a Classical System as Being along a Geodesic in Space-Time

 

作者: H. L. Armstrong,  

 

期刊: American Journal of Physics  (AIP Available online 1954)
卷期: Volume 22, issue 9  

页码: 615-617

 

ISSN:0002-9505

 

年代: 1954

 

DOI:10.1119/1.1933857

 

出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

Ordinarily, the Jacobi formulation of classical mechanics describes a system by giving the path of a “system point” in “configuration space,” the path being a geodesic if a metric is suitably defined. Nothing is said, however, about the motion in time.It is suggested here that, by adding a degree of freedom in uniform motion to serve as a clock, and identifying the time with the coordinate of that degree of freedom, the configuration space can be extended to a space-time, in which the motion is completely described, both in space and in time, as being along a geodesic. Also, by this representation, the idea of “absolute time” is made unnecessary.A representation such as this is, of course, normal in relativistic theory, but its use here in nonrelativistic mechanics is believed to have some novelty.

 

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