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Note on the virial theorem

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Poincaré's formalism is used to develop a variant of the usual virial theorem in which the time average of the equation of motion of a certain function is expressed in terms of the generalized Poisson brackets.

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Ghori, Q.K. Note on the virial theorem. Acta Mech Sinica 14, 76–77 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02486832

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