Ball Bouncing on an Elliptical Slope
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A ball bounces on a slope with the elliptical cross section , sufficiently resilient that it retains % of its velocity at each bounce. This Demonstration displays the trajectory of the ball for user-set values of , , and .
Contributed by: Housam Binous and Ahmed Bellagi (January 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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This Demonstration uses the new Mathematica 9 command WhenEvent.
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"Ball Bouncing on an Elliptical Slope"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BallBouncingOnAnEllipticalSlope/
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Published: January 3 2013