Paper 4, Section I, 3A
(a) Define an inertial frame.
(b) Specify three different types of Galilean transformation on inertial frames whose space coordinates are and whose time coordinate is .
(c) State the Principle of Galilean Relativity.
(d) Write down the equation of motion for a particle in one dimension in a potential . Prove that energy is conserved. A particle is at position at time . Find an expression for time as a function of in terms of an integral involving .
(e) Write down the values of any equilibria and state (without justification) whether they are stable or unstable for:
(i)
(ii) for and .
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