Question

The phase space trajectory of an otherwise free particle bouncing between two hard walls elastically in one dimension is a

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer was rectangle

Explanation:

Answer 2

The phase space of a two dimensional system is called a phase plane.

Explanation:

• Which occurs in classical mechanics for a single particle moving in one dimension.
• And where the two variables are position and velocity.
• As the system evolves, its state follows one of the lines.
• The phase space, a graph of momentum against position, shows a trajectory of a particular system and any point on this trajectory gives a microstate of a particular macrostate.
• The phase space of such a system would simply be a straight line from -q to +q at a particular momentum p and also the same line at -p (for the ball bouncing back in the opposite direction).