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Compact formulas for trapped-particle and passing-particle guiding-center orbits in axisymmetric tokamak geometry are given in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions and complete elliptic integrals. These formulas can find applications in…
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A high-school exercise is used to get an insight into planetary motion.
We obtain in terms of the Weierstrass elliptic $\wp-$function, sigma function, and zeta function an explicit parametrized solution of a particular nonlinear, ordinary differential equation. This equation includes, in special cases,…
This paper presents a method for the accurate and efficient computations on scalar, vector and tensor fields in three-dimensional spherical polar coordinates. The methods uses spin-weighted spherical harmonics in the angular directions and…
It was shown that pedal coordinates provides natural framework in which to study force problems of classical mechanics in the plane. A trajectory of a test particle under the influence of central and Lorentz-like forces can be translated…
We consider the differential equation that Zernike proposed to classify aberrations of wavefronts in a circular pupil, as if it were a classical Hamiltonian with a non-standard potential. The trajectories turn out to be closed ellipses. We…
In this paper we analyze two different functional formulations of classical mechanics. In the first one the Jacobi fields are represented by bosonic variables and belong to the vector (or its dual) representation of the symplectic group. In…
We show how the Abel-Jacobi map provides all the principal properties of an ample family of integrable mechanical systems associated to hyperelliptic curves. We prove that derivative of the Abel-Jacobi map is just the St\"{a}ckel matrix,…
Cylindrically symmetric analogue of the Volkov problem is examined. In presence of the field of a cylindrical electromagnetic wave, classical motion of a non-relativistic particle on a cylindrical surface is described exactly in terms of…
We study the integrable system of first order differential equations $\omega_i(v)'=\alpha_i\,\prod_{j\neq i}\omega_j(v)$, $(1\!\leq i, j\leq\! N)$ as an initial value problem, with real coefficients $\alpha_i$ and initial conditions…
We establish a version of the Landen's transformation for Weierstrass functions and invariants that is applicable to general lattices in complex plane. Using it we present an effective method for computing Weierstrass functions, their…
The trajectory of motion of a scattering electron in the Coulomb potential from the wave function of the Schroedinger equation is presented in two ways, spherical polar coordinates and Temple coordinates, and is compared with each other and…
This paper concerns the classical dynamics of three coupled rotors: equal masses moving on a circle subject to attractive cosine inter-particle potentials. It is a simpler variant of the gravitational three-body problem and also arises as…
We derive new integral representations for objects arising in the classical theory of elliptic functions: the Eisenstein series $E_s$, and Weierstrass' $\wp$ and $\zeta$ functions. The derivations proceed from the Laplace-Mellin…
Using some new logarithmic formal calculus, we construct a well known vertex algebra, obtaining the Jacobi identity directly, in an essentially self-contained treatment.
An approach is proposed to obtain some exact explicit solutions in terms of the Weierstrass' elliptic function $\wp$ to a generalized Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation. Conditions for periodic and solitary wave like solutions can be…
The general static solutions of the scalar field equation for the potential $V(\phi)= -1/2 M^2\phi^2 + \lambda/4 \phi^4$ are determined for a finite domain in $(1+1)$ dimensional space-time. A family of real solutions is described in terms…
We present a new family of solutions for the Jackiw-Teitelboim model of two-dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant. Here, a metric of constant Ricci scalar curvature is constructed, and explicit linearly independent…
All measurable predictions of classical mechanics can be reproduced from a quantum-like interpretation of a nonlinear Schrodinger equation. The key observation leading to classical physics is the fact that a wave function that satisfies a…