Stadium Billiards

The Bunimovich stadium: a rectangle capped with semicircles. Despite simple geometry, trajectories are fully chaotic (ergodic, mixing, positive Lyapunov exponent). A circular billiard is integrable; adding the straight sides breaks integrability and creates chaos.

Bounces: 0
Lyapunov est:
Shape:
Phase portrait (angle vs position) shown on right canvas