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A set of numbers used to quantify location in space.

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How do contact transformations differ from canonical transformations?

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 …
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