Order and Chaos in the "/." (Slashdot) Body Problem

Spacetime time evolution of a line segment (or slash) and a point mass (or dot)

Amanda Logue
John F. Lindner
Jacob Lynn
Frank W. King
Physics Department
The College of Wooster
Wooster, Ohio

Simulated stroboscopic image of a line segment (or slash) and a point mass (or dot) orbiting each other gravitationally in a horizontal plane with time (green arrow) increasing upward.

References

Order and chaos in the rotation and revolution of a line segment and a point mass", John F. Lindner, Jacob Lynn, Frank W. King, Amanda Logue, Phys. Rev. E 81, 036208 (2010).

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