# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

doi: 10.3934/dcds.2021003

## Constant-speed ramps for a central force field

 1 Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain 2 Department of Mathematics, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050, USA

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Received  March 2020 Published  January 2021

Fund Project: Rafael López has partially supported by the grant no. MTM2017-89677-P, MINECO/AEI/FEDER, UE

We investigate the problem of determining the planar curves that describe ramps where a particle of mass $m$ moves with constant-speed when is subject to the action of the friction force and a force whose magnitude $F(r)$ depends only on the distance $r$ from the origin. In this paper we describe all the constant-speed ramps for the case $F(r) = -m/r$. We show the circles and the logarithmic spirals play an important role. Not only they are solutions but every other solution approaches either a circle or a logarithmic spiral.

Citation: Rafael López, Óscar Perdomo. Constant-speed ramps for a central force field. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, doi: 10.3934/dcds.2021003
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A mass $M$ sliding along $\alpha$ under the effect of a central force ${\mathbf F}({\mathbf r})$ and the friction force
Case $v = 1$. The phase portrait of the system (17), with $\mu = 0.5$. The origin $(0,0)$ is the only equilibrium point and it is a stable focus
Case $v = 1$. The purple part of the logarithmic spiral (left) is the TreadmillSled of the non-circular ramp (right)
The phase portrait of the system (21). Left: $v = 2$ and $\mu = 0.1$. Right: $v = 0.5$ and $\mu = 0.3$
TreadmillSleds that are half-lines. Left: $v = 2$, $\mu = 0.1$. Right: $v = 0.5$, $\mu = 0.3$
Constant-speed ramps whose TreadmillSleds are half-lines of Figure 5, left. Here $v = 2$, $\mu = 0.1$. Left: parametrization (23) for $\mathbf{a}$. Right: parametrization (23) for $-\mathbf{a}$
Constant-speed ramps $\alpha_{ls}$ whose TreadmillSleds $\gamma_{ls}$ are the half-lines of Figure 5, right. Here $v = 0.5$ and $\mu = 0.3$. Left: parametrization (23) for $\mathbf{a}$. Right: parametrization (23) for $-\mathbf{a}$
Constant-speed ramps whose TreadmillSleds are not half-lines. Here $v = 2$ and $\mu = 0.1$. Left: the TreadmillSled which is asymptotic to the line of vector $\mathbf{a}$. Right: the constant-speed ramp
Constant-speed ramps whose TreadmillSleds are not half-lines. Here $v = 0.8$ and $\mu = 0.3$. Left: the TreadmillSled. Right: the constant-speed ramp
Constant-speed ramps that are not spirals. Left: $v = 2$ and $\mu = 0.1$. Right: $v = 0.8$ and $\mu = 0.3$
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