Analysis and experimental study on the Jumping Chain
Classical Physics
2023-03-01 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Abstract
A freely falling chain from a cup at certain height can jump. The process can be divided into two parts: a stable suspension and an accelerating procedure. Variational principle and force analysis demonstrate that the shape of stable suspension is an inverted catenary. The requirement of the jumping and the parameters to describe the jumping catenary have been studied in detail, and experiments have been conducted to verify the theoretical analysis. The physical picture of the falling chain could be useful in certain falling systems, providing valuable insight into the dynamical system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2302.14528,
title = {Analysis and experimental study on the Jumping Chain},
author = {Wenyu Wang and Wu-Long Xu and Yang Xu and Xu-Dong Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.14528},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures