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What is difference between partial and ordinary time derivative? for example: what is difference between $\frac {\partial v}{\partial t}$ and $\frac {dv}{dt}$? where the $v$ is velocity.

In proving the total energy in conservative field is constant we have this equation(picture) why it added partial derivative? Why? I mean where it did come from?

$\frac{dM}{dt} = 0$ represents a constant of motion $M.$ Why not $\frac{\partial M}{\partial t}$ represent a constant of motion $M$?

I am trying to explain what implicit time dependence is and how it differs from explicit time dependence, but I'm unsure how "sound" my explanation is. Here is what I said: Suppose I have a function $...

I am taking a course in classical mechanics, and I was wondering what the difference between the two time derivatives $\frac{\text{dL}}{\text{dt}}$ and $\frac{\partial \text{L}}{\partial \text{t}}$ in ...

What is the exact use of the symbols $\partial$, $\delta$ and $\mathrm{d}$ in derivatives in physics? How are they different and when are they used? It would be nice to get that settled once and for ...

For an observable $A$ and a Hamiltonian $H$, Wikipedia gives the time evolution equation for $A(t) = e^{iHt/\hbar} A e^{-iHt/\hbar}$ in the Heisenberg picture as $$\frac{d}{dt} A(t) = \frac{i}{\hbar} ...

Referring to Wikipedia we have that the equation of motion for a $f(q, p, t)$ comes from the formula \begin{equation} \frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t} f(p, q, t) = \frac{\partial f}{\partial q} \frac{\...

I am having a bit of a crisis in understanding of the physical meanings of total derivatives. When a quantity $\rho$ (be it a vector or a scalar) is said to be conserved, then (mathematically) $$\...

In the coordinate representation, in 1D, the wave function depends on space and time, $\Psi(x,t)$, accordingly the time dependent Schrödinger equation is $$H\Psi(x,t) = i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_of_motion#In_quantum_mechanics I understand the derivation to get $$\frac{d}{dt}⟨\psi|Q|\psi⟩ = -\frac{1}{i\hbar}⟨\psi|[H,Q]\psi⟩ + ⟨\psi|\frac{d}{dt}Q|\psi⟩$$ ...

Today when my professor was deriving this equation: $$\frac{\mathrm d\langle A\rangle}{\mathrm dt}=\frac{i}{\hbar}\langle\left[H,\,A\right]\rangle+\left\langle\frac{\partial A}{\partial t}\right\...

,I got one confusion when reading Goldstein's Classical Mechanics (page 20, third edition). After getting the equation $$ \sum \left\{\left[\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}{\left(\frac{\partial T}{\...

While studying Poisson brackets in classical mechanics and the derivation of $\dot{q_j}=\{q_j,H\}$ and $\dot{p_j}=\{p_j,H\}$ form of Hamilton's equations I encountered a surpsing identity, which led ...

I have a simple question regarding an example presented by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky in their book on Classical Mechanics The Theoretical Minimum. In page 151, they state: "If there is ...