Chaos control: The problem of a bouncing ball revisited

Autor: M. Cristina Vargas, D. A. Huerta, Victor Sosa
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: American Journal of Physics. 77:857-861
ISSN: 1943-2909
0002-9505
DOI: 10.1119/1.3148565
Popis: The problem of a body bouncing on a periodically oscillating surface is revisited to demonstrate chaos control. When the bouncing body is magnetic, it is possible to modify its behavior by adding a magnetic driving force. The mechanism of chaos control may be understood by means of a mechanical analysis which shows that the main result of applying the driving force is to shift the bifurcation diagram in such a way that chaotic behavior is replaced by periodic behavior and vice versa. A simple experiment is presented, along with a numerical simulation, that provides insight into chaos control.
Databáze: OpenAIRE