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Elastic impacts at a circular boundary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

F. Chorlton*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Aston, Birmingham B4 7ET

Extract

A particle is free to move on a smooth horizontal circular table having a circular insurmountable barrier Γ. The particle is projected from a point P of the table and it subsequently suffers reflections at the points P1, P2, P3, … on Γ due to elastic impact. Investigations are made of the possibility of its passing again through P at some stage.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1984

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