Billiard Table

Dynamical billiards — watch chaos emerge in non-circular tables

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Dynamical billiards model a point particle bouncing elastically inside a boundary. Circle billiards are integrable (conserve angular momentum). The stadium (Bunimovich 1974) and Sinai billiards exhibit strong chaos: nearby trajectories diverge exponentially, with positive Lyapunov exponent.