Published October 1992
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Journal article
Billiard in a barrel
Creators
- 1. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York 10012 (United States)
Description
Orbits in the three-dimensional billiard of the form of a truncated ellipsoid (''barrel'') are studied both analytically and numerically. A special form of mapping is proposed to get the expression for Kolmogorov--Sinai entropy, and the transition from strong chaos to weak chaos is obtained
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.)
- Journal Volume
- 2
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 469-472.
- ISSN
- 1054-1500
- CODEN
- CHAOEH
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 24027914
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CLASSICAL MECHANICS; ELASTIC SCATTERING; ENTROPY; ORBITS; QUANTIZATION; SPHERES
- Descriptors DEC
- MECHANICS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES