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AND EXTENSION IN VELOCITY.

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and

{\begin{aligned}&\int \ldots \int {\bigg (}{\frac {d({\dot {Q}}_{1},\ldots {\dot {Q}}_{n})}{d(P_{1},\ldots P_{n})}}{\bigg )}^{\frac {1}{2}}\,dP_{1}\ldots dP_{n}\\&\quad =\int \ldots \int {\bigg (}{\frac {d({\dot {Q}}_{1},\ldots {\dot {Q}}_{n})}{d(P_{1},\ldots P_{n})}}{\bigg )}^{\frac {1}{2}}{\frac {d(P_{1},\ldots P_{n})}{d(p_{1},\ldots p_{n})}}\,dp_{1}\ldots dp_{n}\\&=\int \ldots \int {\bigg (}{\frac {d({\dot {Q}}_{1},\ldots {\dot {Q}}_{n})}{d(P_{1},\ldots P_{n})}}{\bigg )}^{\frac {1}{2}}{\bigg (}{\frac {d(P_{1},\ldots P_{n})}{d(p_{1},\ldots p_{n})}}{\bigg )}^{\frac {1}{2}}{\bigg (}{\frac {d({\dot {q}}_{1},\ldots {\dot {q}}_{n})}{d({\dot {Q}}_{1},\ldots {\dot {Q}}_{n})}}{\bigg )}^{\frac {1}{2}}\,dp_{1}\ldots dp_{n}\\&\quad =\int \ldots \int {\bigg (}{\frac {d({\dot {q}}_{1},\ldots {\dot {q}}_{n})}{d(p_{1},\ldots p_{n})}}\,dp_{1}\ldots dp_{n}.\end{aligned}}

The multiple integral

\int \ldots \int dp_{1}\ldots dp_{n}\,dq_{1}\ldots dq_{n},

(151)

which may also be written

\int \ldots \int \Delta _{\dot {q}}\,d{\dot {q}}_{1}\ldots d{\dot {q}}_{n}\,dq_{1}\ldots dq_{n},

(152)

and which, when taken within any given limits of phase, has been shown to have a value independent of the coördinates employed, expresses what we have called an extension-in-phase.^[1] In like manner we may say that the multiple integral (148) expresses an extension-in-configuration, and that the multiple integrals (149) and (150) express an extension-in-velocity. We have called