Deterministic physical systems under uncertain initial conditions: the case of maximum entropy applied to projectile motion

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/aaaf0czbMath1407.70023arXiv1709.02360OpenAlexW3103750639MaRDI QIDQ4683456

Alejandra Montecinos, Joaquín Peralta, Sergio M. Davis

Publication date: 21 September 2018

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02360

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemmaximum entropyprojectile motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems involving a system of particles with friction (70F40) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Inverse problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A23) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35)

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