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Normal Modes and Coordinates

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Before we present the problems in this chapter we briefly review the properties of normal modes and coordinates by stating three propositions about them.

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Kelley, J.D., Leventhal, J.J. (2017). Normal Modes and Coordinates. In: Problems in Classical and Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46664-4_4

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