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Dynamics of inelastic collapse
1Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany.
Abstract:
We consider a particle randomly accelerated by Gaussian white noise on the half-line x>0. The collisions of the particle with the wall at x=0 are inelastic. The velocities just before and after reflection are related by v(f)=-rv(i), where r is the coefficient of restitution. Cornell, Swift, and Bray have shown that for r