Abstract

ANTON, C.  and  BRUN, J.L.. Gravitational pocket billiards with Mathematica^TM. Rev. mex. fís. E [online]. 2009, vol.55, n.2, pp.168-175. ISSN 1870-3542.

Playing pocket billiards with two gravitational attracting balls and a non-interacting hole requires one to know the trajectories of the balls and therefore to be an "artisan" in the so-called two-body problem, one of the milestones for undergraduate students of Classical Mechanics.

Keywords : Two body problem; Kepler's problem; Mathematica; pocket billiards.

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