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Confusion about Noether's Theorem

In classical mechanics, a transformation $q \rightarrow q + \delta q$ is a symmetry if the resultant change in the Lagrangian is a total derivative, $$ \delta L = \frac{dF}{dt}.$$ If we derive the ...
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