(February 16, 2013 at 7:13 am)apophenia Wrote:(February 16, 2013 at 7:02 am)pocaracas Wrote: feel free to use the theorem... just don't forget that it doesn't always apply!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem
I rather suspect that you don't actually understand what you just said.
Perhaps you missed the part
Quote: it does not apply to systems that cannot be modeled with a Lagrangian alone
