26 questions linked to/from Which transformations are canonical?
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I was going through my professor's notes about Canonical transformations. He states that a canonical transformation from $(q, p)$ to $(Q, P)$ is one that if which the original coordinates obey ...
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### Is a canonical transformation equivalent to a transformation that preserves volume and orientation?

We have seen the reverse statement: Lioville's Theorem states that canonical transformations preserve volume (and orientation as well). Is the reverse true? If I demand a map from the phase space to ...
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### Why do we care only about canonical transformations?

In Hamiltonian mechanics we search change of coordinates that leaves the Hamilton equation invariant: these are the canonical transformations. My question is: why we want to leave the equations ...
From Goldstein, 3rd edition, section 9.6, page 399 after equation 9.101: [...] The motion of a system in a time interval $dt$ can be described by an infinitesimal contact transformation generated ...