  Damped-driven systems are ubiquitous in science, however the damping and
driving mechanisms are often quite convoluted. This manuscript presents an
experimental and theoretical investigation of a fluidic droplet on a vertically
vibrating fluid bath as a damped-driven system. We study a fluidic droplet in
an annular cavity with the fluid bath forced above the Faraday wave threshold.
We model the droplet as a kinematic point particle in air and as inelastic
collisions during impact with the bath. In both experiments and the model the
droplet is observed to chaotically change velocity with a Gaussian
distribution. Finally, the statistical distributions from experiments and
theory are analyzed. Incredibly, this simple deterministic interaction of
damping and driving of the droplet leads to more complex Brownian-like and
Levy-like behavior.
