We will ignore any complications associated
with the
angular momentum of the ball, so it is better to
think of this as a particle sliding on a frictionless sheet
of ice. It would thus be more accurate to term this the ``hockey puck''
problem, but the name ``billiard'' is already firmly attached
to the model.
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