Holonomic System (physics)
In classical mechanics a system may be defined as holonomic if all constraints of the system are holonomic. For a constraint to be holonomic it must be expressible as a function:
i.e. a holonomic constraint depends only on the coordinates and time . It does not depend on the velocities. A constraint that cannot be expressed in the form shown above is a nonholonomic constraint.
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