Index

A
Air resistance, 18, 23, 25, 36, 37, 42, 46, 48,
53, 56, 57, 62, 63, 68, 71, 83, 112, 113,
145, 147
coefficients, 47, 60
force, 36, 37, 43, 47, 5053, 83, 97
moment, 43, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 83, 84
B
Basin, 18, 146
of attraction, 19, 20, 97, 112, 118, 123,
136141, 145, 147
boundary, 19, 20, 97, 136138, 141, 145,
147, 148
intermingled, 147
Body dynamics
equations, 23
Buffons needle, 1416
C
Chaos, 149
Chaotic, 6, 18, 147
behavior, 18, 115, 116, 147, 149
Coefficient of restitution, 37
Collision, 16, 23
of bodies, 3739
elastic, 38
time, 38
E
Euler
angles, 23, 26, 3134, 45
parameters, 23, 34, 35, 4244, 46, 64
F
Fair
coin, 6, 7
by continuity, 9
die, 7

by dynamics, 21
by symmetry, 7
tossed coin, 107, 111
Fractal basin boundary, 1820, 97, 138, 147
Fractalization, 118, 141, 147, 149
G
Grazing, 148
bifurcation, 149
I
Ideal coin, 7, 27, 45, 46, 56, 57, 67, 101, 105,
107, 112, 113
Imperfect coin, 7, 41, 4346, 64, 112114
Inertia
matrix, 41, 44
Products, 67
Intermingled
basin of attraction, 21
Isohedra, 7, 8, 67, 68
L
Lyapunov exponent, 18, 113, 116, 147
M
Moment of inertia, 27, 46, 58, 63, 67, 68, 74
Momentum, 11, 17, 19, 117, 136
angular, 17, 19, 23, 2530, 38, 117, 136
linear, 23, 25, 38
N
Newtons
hypothesis, 64, 69, 70, 74
law, 71
Newton-Euler
equations, 19, 25, 42, 67, 68, 136
laws, 41
Noise, 144

Strzako, J. et al.: Index. Lect. Notes Phys. 792, 151152 (2009)

c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03960-7


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P
Pinball machine, 14, 16, 17
Precession, 26, 27, 29, 30, 55, 105107, 111
Predictability, 18, 21, 141, 143, 148
Probability, 2, 5, 6, 9, 11, 1316, 19, 103, 104,
107, 108, 118, 120126, 136, 144, 145
Product of inertia, 41, 44

R
Randomizer, 1, 14, 1721, 41, 46, 143, 145,
147, 148
Riddled
basin of attraction, 21
Rolling, 4, 71, 72, 7477, 79, 87, 90, 92

Q
Quaternions, 23, 26, 34, 35, 42

U
Unpredictability, 18, 20, 115