Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Swietokrzyska 21, 00-49, Warsaw, Poland
Abstract:
A criterion has been formulated for single and multiple central collisions of two rigid bodies of a simple mechanical system that can be either conservative or non-conservative. Analytical discussion has been confined to investigations of the possibility of appearance of four successive collisions between the bodies with damping neglected and two collisions when viscous damping and Coulomb dry friction are considered.