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We shall first use an example to explain the concept of adiabatic invariance. Let us consider a “super ball” of mass m, which bounces back and forth between two walls (distance l) with velocity \(\boldsymbol{v}_{0}\). Let gravitation be neglected, and the collisions with the walls be elastic. If F m denotes the average force onto each wall, then we have
f is the force acting on the ball during one collision, and T is the time between collisions.
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Dittrich, W., Reuter, M. (2016). The Adiabatic Invariance of the Action Variables. In: Classical and Quantum Dynamics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21677-5_9
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