Coin Tossing as a Billiard Problem

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1995-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9502011v2

Phys. Rev. E52, 3608, (1995).

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

16 pages, LaTex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.52.3608

We demonstrate that the free motion of any two-dimensional rigid body colliding elastically with two parallel, flat walls is equivalent to a billiard system. Using this equivalence, we analyze the integrable and chaotic properties of this new class of billiards. This provides a demonstration that coin tossing, the prototypical example of an independent random process, is a completely chaotic (Bernoulli) problem. The related question of which billiard geometries can be represented as rigid body systems is examined.

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