Geometric adiabatic angle in anisotropic oscillators
arXiv:2506.00559 · doi:10.1119/5.0270675
Abstract
We discuss a classical anisotropic oscillator and the Foucault pendulum as examples illustrating non-conservation of action variables in integrable classical mechanical systems with adiabatically slow evolution. We also emphasize the importance of the mass parameter of a harmonic oscillator, alongside its frequency, in explicitly time-dependent situations.
22 pages, 4 figures, to appear in American Journal of Physics