Gravitational pocket billiards with Mathematica$\texttrademark$

Authors

  • C. Antón
  • J.L. Brun

Keywords:

Two body problem, Kepler´s problem, Mathematica, pocket billiards

Abstract

Playing pocket billiards with two gravitational attracting balls and a non-interacting hole requires one to know the trajectories of the balls and therefore to be an ``artisan'' in the so-called two-body problem, one of the milestones for undergraduate students of Classical Mechanics.

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2009-01-01

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[1]
C. Antón and J. Brun, “Gravitational pocket billiards with Mathematica$\texttrademark$”, Rev. Mex. Fis. E, vol. 55, no. 2 Jul-Dec, pp. 168–175, Jan. 2009.

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Vol. 55 No. 2 Jul-Dec (2009): Revista Mexicana de Física E

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