On Oct 1, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
The system doesn't conserve energy. The collisions with the plates are obviously inelastic but the balls don't stop if they're in the presence of the "attractors"; they're apparently getting a "kick" from something in the course of orbiting.
I think it's from gaining energy from multiple ball-ball collisions that one ball can gain enough momentum to escape.
Here's a slight variation of yours that works pretty well:
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Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
