The physics of billiards

Jim Belk, a mathematician at Bard College, has figured out what a perfectly centered billiards break looks like. It looks like this:

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Does this beautiful model of billiards breaks have any wider applications outside of pool tables? Tell me in the comments section below. In the meantime, you can study Professor Belk’s mathematical model for yourself in MathOverflow.

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.
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