Title: Notes on mechanics, symmetry, reduction, holonomy, and control (15 pages)
Detail: Mechanical systems reading group, California Institute of Technology, Summer 1993

Original manuscript: 1993/07/15

These are notes on mechanical systems with symmetry, especially Lagrangian systems. This is a very introductory presentation and has a few simple examples to keep things under control.

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Andrew D. Lewis (andrew at mast.queensu.ca)