Browsing Physics (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Jacobi functions"
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A continuum description of the buckling of a line of spheres in a transverse harmonic confining potential
(2023)A line of contacting hard spheres, placed in a transverse confining potential, buckles under compression or when tilted away from the horizontal, once a critical tilt angle is exceeded. This interesting nonlinear problem ... -
Description of the buckling of a chain of hard spheres in terms of Jacobi functions
(2022)A linear chain of hard spheres, confined by a transverse harmonic potential, buckles under compression between two hard walls. Jacobi functions provide exact analytic solutions of a differential equation (related to the ...