2.II.29I
State Pontryagin's maximum principle in the case where both the terminal time and the terminal state are given.
Show that is the minimum value taken by the integral
subject to the constraints and , where
[You may find it useful to note the fact that the problem is rotationally symmetric about the -axis, so that the angle made by the initial velocity with the positive -axis may be chosen arbitrarily.]
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