Timeline of classical mechanics: Difference between revisions

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* [[1821]] - [[William Rowan Hamilton|William Hamilton]] begins his analysis of Hamilton's characteristic function

* [[1834]] - [[Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi|Carl Jacobi]] discovers his uniformly rotating self-gravitating [[ellipsoid]]s

* [[1834]] - [[John Russell (physicist)|John Russell]] observes a nondecaying solitary water wave ([[soliton]]) in the [[Union Canal]] near [[Edinburgh, Scotland|Edinburgh]] and uses a water tank to study the dependence of solitary water wave velocities on wave amplitude and water depth

* [[1835]] - William Hamilton states [[Hamiltonian mechanics|Hamilton's canonical equations of motion]]

* [[1835]] - [[Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis|Gaspard Coriolis]] examines motion on a spinning surface deduces the [[Coriolis effect]]