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Symplectic Geometry: The Natural Language of Classical Mechanics
Starting from Hamilton’s equations, understand why the symplectic form captures the structure of classical dynamics more directly than coordinates.
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The Hamilton–Jacobi Equation and Lagrangian Submanifolds
View the action as a generating function and understand how families of classical trajectories become geometric objects in phase space.
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Momentum Maps and Noether’s Theorem
How symmetries generate conserved quantities on symplectic manifolds, and why Lie group actions provide the right framework.
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The Classical Limit of the Path Integral
How the stationary-phase approximation reorganizes quantum amplitudes around classical trajectories.