| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8256495 | Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
A system of two masses connected with a weightless rod (called dumbbell in this paper) interacting with a flat boundary is considered. The sharp bound on the number of collisions with the boundary is found using billiard techniques. In case the ratio of masses is large and the dumbbell rotates fast, an adiabatic invariant is obtained.
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Authors
Y. Baryshnikov, V. Blumen, K. Kim, V. Zharnitsky,