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Since the canonical variables completely describe the state of the mechanical system, any physical quantity F shall be described by a function of the canonical variables: F(q, p, t), possibly with an explicit time dependence.
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Strocchi, F. (2018). Poisson brackets and canonical structure. In: A Primer of Analytical Mechanics. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73761-4_4
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