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Canonical mechanics is a central part of general mechanics, where one goes beyond the somewhat narrow framework of Newtonian mechanics with position coordinates in the three-dimensional space, towards a more general formulation of mechanical systems belonging to a much larger class. This is the first step of abstraction, leaving behind ballistics, satellite orbits, inclined planes, and pendulumclocks; it leads to a new kind of description that turns out to be useful in areas of physics far beyond mechanics.
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Scheck, F. (2010). The Principles of Canonical Mechanics. In: Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05370-2_2
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