Effects of nonadiabatic transitions on invariants of the motion
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 17 (7) , 1386-1390
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1694901
Abstract
A computer study is made of the change in adiabatic invariant for a plane pendulum when a slow variation in the pendulum length forces the pendulum to change from circularly rotating motion to an oscillating state. The numerical results are shown to be in good agreement with a simply derived analytic expression which itself is generalizable to calculations of nonadiabatic transitions in other problems.Keywords
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