Douglas_Knight3 comments on Relative Configuration Space - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 May 2008 09:25AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight3 27 May 2008 06:15:19AM 2 points [-]

I expect most physicists have never heard of relative configuration spaces as such.

huh? Don't undergrads do abstract configuration spaces in classical mechanics? Surely all physicists have heard of symplectic reduction and Noether's theorem?