I'm working through Leonard Susskind's Theoretical Minimum: Classical Mechanics and I can't seem to understand how the Hamiltonian of a simple harmonic oscillator is derived from the following Lagrangian:
L = ω2˙q2−ω2q2
where ω=√km.
The main problem I'm having is that while I understand the basic substitution required to transform the Lagrangian into the Hamiltonian form, I can't understand how the final form of the Hamiltonian is derived in the book:
H = ω2(p2+q2)
I made it this far:
H=p2m−p22m2ω+ωq22
I don't see the intuition behind the substitutions necessary to derive the final form of this equation. How does p2m−p22m2ω become ω2p2?
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