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Nelin. Dinam., 2011 Volume 7, Number 2, Pages 313–338 (Mi nd261)

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Generalized Chaplygins transformation and explicit integration of a system with a spherical support

A. V. Borisov, A. A. Kilin, I. S. Mamaev

Institute of Computer Science, Izhevsk

Abstract: We consider the problem of explicit integration and bifurcation analysis for two systems of nonholonomic mechanics. The first one is the Chaplygin's problem on no-slip rolling of a balanced dynamically non-symmetrical ball on a horizontal plane. The second problem is on the motion of rigid body in a spherical support. We explicitly integrate this problem by generalizing the transformation which Chaplygin applied to the integration of the problem of the rolling ball at a non-zero constant of areas. We consider the geometric interpretation of this transformation from the viewpoint of a trajectory isomorphism between two systems at different levels of the energy integral. Generalization of this transformation for the case of dynamics in a spherical support allows us to integrate the equations of motion explicitly in quadratures and, in addition, to indicate periodic solutions and analyze their stability. We also show that adding a gyrostat does not lead to the loss of integrability.

Keywords: nonholonomic mechanics, spherical support, Chaplygin ball, explicit integration, isomorphism, bifurcation analysis.

UDC: 532.5

MSC: 37J60, 37J35, 70E18, 70F25, 70H45

Received: 22.04.2011
Revised: 23.06.2011



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