Ball Bouncing on an Elliptical Slope

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System
Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.
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
Snapshots
Details
This Demonstration uses the new Mathematica 9 command WhenEvent.
Permanent Citation
"Ball Bouncing on an Elliptical Slope"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BallBouncingOnAnEllipticalSlope/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: January 3 2013