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A geometric theory for spacetimes whose world lines associated with physical particles have an upper bound for the proper acceleration is developed. After some fundamental remarks on the requirements that the classical dynamics for point…

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The object of this laboratory work: to explore dependence mass point oscillatory motion parameters in the following cases: - without resistance (free oscillations); - the resistance force is proportional to the velocity vector; - the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 K. B. Korotchenko

We investigate the scattering of two distinguishable particles with unequal masses and a mutual short-range interaction with the aim of quantifying the impact of a tunneling ``projectile'' particle on the quantum mechanical state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Roman Michelko , Peter Bokes

In relativistic dynamics, force and acceleration are no longer parallel. In this article, we revisit the relativistic motion of a particle under the action of a constant force, $\boldsymbol{f}$. \ For a two-dimensional motion, the final…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Jhonnatan G. Pereira , Victor E. Mouchrek-Santos , Manoel M. Ferreira

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the microscopic interaction of the phase transition fronts with non-equilibrium plasma particles manifests itself macroscopically as friction forces. In general, it is a nontrivial problem to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ariel Megevand

Materials that dissipate energy efficiently under high-speed impacts, from micrometeoroid strikes on spacecraft to ballistic penetration in protective systems, are essential for maintaining structural integrity in extreme environments. Yet,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Yasara Dharmadasa , Nicholas Jaegersberg , Ara Kim , Jizhe Cai , Ramathasan Thevamaran

Kinematically forbidden processes may be allowed in the presence of external gravitational fields. These ca be taken into account by introducing generalized particle momenta. The corresponding transition probabilities can then be calculated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Giorgio Papini

Both null and timelike rays experience trajectory bending in a gravitational field. In this work, we systematically develop a perturbative method to compute the deflection angle of rays with general velocity $v$ in arbitrary static and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Junji Jia

We analyse a mechanical system in two-dimensional relative motion with friction. Although the system is simple, the peculiar interplay between two kinetic friction forces and gravity leads to the wide range of admissible solutions exceeding…

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In this series of eight papers we present the applications of methods from wavelet analysis to polynomial approximations for a number of accelerator physics problems. In this part we consider orbital motion in transverse plane for a single…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

We investigate theoretically and numerically quantum reflection of dark solitons propagating through an external reflectionless potential barrier or in the presence of a position-dependent dispersion. We confirm that quantum reflection…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-01-11 L. Al Sakkaf , T. Uthayakumar , U. Al Khawaja

A new method to study the retardation effects in mesons is presented. Inspired from the covariant oscillator quark model, it is applied to the rotating string model in which a non zero value is allowed for the relative time between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 F. Buisseret , C. Semay

We derive the exact form of effective potential in Kerr geometry from the general relativistic radial momentum equation. The effective potential accurately mimics the general relativistic features, over the entire range of the spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-24 Abhrajit Bhattacharjee , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We consider resonant dynamics in a dilute atomic gas falling under gravity through a periodically pulsed standing-wave laser field. Our numerical calculations are based on a Monte Carlo method for an incoherent mixture of noninteracting…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 M. Saunders , P. L. Halkyard , S. A. Gardiner , K. J. Challis

We describe a method to extract force and diffusion parameters from single trajectories of Brownian particles based on the principle of maximum likelihood. The analysis is well-suited for out-of-equilibrium trajectories, even when a limited…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-30 Raphael Sarfati , Jerzy Blawzdziewicz , Eric R. Dufresne

An efficient approach to compute near time-optimal trajectories for linear kinematic systems with oscillatory internal dynamics is presented. Thereby, kinematic constraints with respect to velocity, acceleration and jerk are taken into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Thomas Auer , Frank Woittennek

Several features of electrostatics of point charged particles in a weak, homogeneous, gravitational field are discussed using the Rindler metric to model the gravitational field. Some previously known results are obtained by simpler and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Hamsa Padmanabhan , T. Padmanabhan

We report an experimental, numerical and theoretical study of the motion of a ball on a rough inclined surface. The control parameters are $D$, the diameter of the ball, $\theta$, the inclination angle of the rough surface and $E_{ki}$, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Henrique , M. A. Aguirre , A. Calvo , I. Ippolito , S. Dippel , G. G. Batrouni , D. Bideau

We revisit the problem of deceleration of a charge moving in a medium. Going beyond the traditional approach, which relies on Ehrenfest dynamics, we treat the projectile fully quantum mechanically, on the same footing as the electrons of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-31 Vladimir U. Nazarov , E. K. U. Gross

We study the long time motion of fast particles moving through time-dependent random force fields with correlations that decay rapidly in space, but not necessarily in time. The time dependence of the averaged kinetic energy and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Aguer , S. De Bievre , P. Lafitte , P. Parris