A billiard table is any compact convex body T in the plane bounded by a continuously differentiable curve ∂ T ∂ T . An idealized billiard ball is a point which moves at unit speed in a straight line except when it hits the boundary ∂ T ∂ T where it rebounds making the angle of incidence equal to the angle of reflection. A rather surprising phenomenon can happen on such a table.
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Benjamin Halpern (1977) studied this question.
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