Geometric adiabatic angle in anisotropic oscillators
Fumika Suzuki, Nikolai A. Sinitsyn
Published: 2025/5/31
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.