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I removed the technical tag and added appropriate tags. The problem isn't that the article is technical; it's that the article is written crappily. There's a distinction. --
C S (
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06:12, 19 February 2009 (UTC)reply
Bouncing ball example
I cannot figure out what the bouncing ball example is saying. I don't believe its describing the center manifold. Its not even clear what the manifold is...
67.198.37.16 (
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04:23, 25 September 2020 (UTC)reply
I removed it. The canonical example is Saturn's rings. Tidal forces exert the usual stretch-and-shrink mean that particles above the ring oscillate up and down (the ring thus looks like is attractive); particles in the ring have a random walk in the radius (as they gravitionally interact with other particles in the ring, exchanging energy with them during close encounters). The unstable manifold is the hyperbolic orbits.
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04:34, 25 September 2020 (UTC)reply